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it's hard to even start in on it. I feel for any employees affected by the shutdown, but corrections officers unions are the very last people I want to hear from right now. I know your post was made with good intent, but to start, the food in the federal correctional system can never, never be described as anything but disgraceful. Ninety percent of the food fed to inmates is donated because it can't be legally sold for human consumption, and then written off the taxes of the companies that donate it. Nice that the story used a photo from a restaraunt because the real thing is not very photogenic...in fact it's something you probably wouldn't feed your dog. Rancid meat recycled and served multiple times with each successive serving more heavily seasoned to hide the taste...years-old freezer-burned chicken leg quarters served bloody from inadequate cooking time. It's quite common to be sick from spoiled food once or twice a week if you don't have money to purchase pre-packaged food from the commissary (most of which conveniently enough is sold by Keefe which is primarily owned by George W. Bush). And then on holidays they only feed one meal they call brunch and serve something called steak or game hen and then close the place down for the rest of the day and hand out baloney and cheese sandwiches. In a nutshell, the food is so poor that only inmates who have no alternative eat the food they serve.
Then we can start with the corrections officers unions, one of the biggest lobbyists for virtually anything that supports the prison slave-labor industry and anything that supports the pipeline to prison. I don't want to rant all day, but corrections officers unions, like police officers unions are a primary cause of the militarization of our police forces and are not someone progressives should support.
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