Niagara County Jail

Meals

Interview with Karl


JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Karl: Three. Plus whatever you wanted to snack on the from the overly expensive commissary.

JM: How would you rate the food?
Karl: On a scale of 1 to 10, about a 4. Occasionally, on holidays, the quality would increase and we would get dessert such as pumpkin pie

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Karl: My favorite meal was the corkscrew pasta with cream sauce usually served every other Friday. My least favorite meal was lunch on Saturday, which was just six slices of greasy bologna and mustard packets, potato chips and a small apple.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals?
Karl: Only for the inmates who had special dietary needs assessed and authorized by the jail doctor. You were not even permitted to keep any food overnight, whether you had containers with covers or not. Some C.O.s would only let you keep food from one meal to the next and during a "frisk" would confiscate and throw away perfectly good food you were attempting to save.