Good To Know: Beware Jail Nutriloaf

**TheMorningStar** · April 4th, 2012, 01:00 PM

The opinion (PDF) by Judge Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals suggested appointment of counsel for the inmate, Terrance Prude, who vomited and suffered an anal fissure after eating nutriloaf at the jail during a stay to attend court proceedings. Jail officials gave Prude bread and water as a substitute, and his weight dropped from 168 to 154 after two stays at the facility. Other inmates at the jail also vomited after eating nutriloaf.

Withholding nutritious food or substituting sickening food, causing substantial weight loss, vomiting and maybe an anal fissure would violate the Eighth Amendment, Posner said. He cited Wikipedia for the proposition that such a fissure is “no fun at all.”
The defendants, including Sheriff David Clarke Jr., did not disclose the nutriloaf recipe in response to discovery demands. “No evidence was presented concerning the recipe for or ingredients of the nutriloaf that was served at the county jail during the plaintiff’s sojourns there,” Posner wrote. “ ‘Nutriloaf’ isn’t a proprietary food like Hostess Twinkies but, like ‘meatloaf’ or ‘beef stew,’ a term for a composite food the recipe of which can vary from institution to institution, or even from day to day within an institution; nutriloaf could meet requirements for calories and protein one day yet be poisonous the next if, for example, made from leftovers that had spoiled.”

Posner said the defendants ignored discovery demands and the trial judge’s order that they comply. The defendants also failed to file an appellate brief and failed to respond to an order to show cause whey they didn’t do so. “They seem to think that the federal courts have no jurisdiction over a county jail,” Posner said. The appeals court issued an order to show cause why the defendants should not be sanctioned for contumacious conduct and warned they “will find themselves in deep trouble” if they fail to comply.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/artic...osner_opinion/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_fissure

**Mommyof2** · April 4th, 2012, 01:36 PM

Wtf? I understand it is jail but damn they could at least give them real food. I am not saying they deserve to have steak and potatoes every night but damn maybe some real meat and veggies?

I know there are a lot of monsters in jail but not everybody in jail is in there for some kind of horrible crime. I think people tend to forget that.

I have a close friend who is on his 9th year of a 20 year sentence I am heartbroken to think this is the kind of food he is offered. He would never tell me if it was bad like that because I tend to worry. Oh and my friend is no monster, never hurt a soul..his mother was a crack head who abandoned him. He got caught up with the wrong kids and started stealing to survive. He was caught and got the worst judge in the county. It makes me sick to think killers and child molesters get less time than him.

So maybe I am biased because of him but dang I think we could at least offer editable food.