After SPIN! Video "What rights to prisoners have regarding meals?"
Published December 14, 2016
After SPIN! "Question to Gene Arnold and Peg O’Connell – The News and Observer recently published a column telling about an 81 year old serving a life sentence in Mountain View Correctional Institution. The prisoner complained that eggs are increasingly absent from breakfast menus. The Department of Public Corrections responded that eggs are served on 17 out of every 35 days and that other proteins are substituted on eggless days. This begs the question about the obligations of the state in providing meals to prisoners and what rights do prisoners have regarding meals. What’s your response?"
December 14, 2016 at 10:01 am
Jennifer stamper says:
My question back becomes "When did being in prison come with rights?" Going to prison is supposed to be a punishment, sorry! Now guards should not beat and abuse prisoners but prison should not have any luxuries and just the basic get bys! So what if you don't have eggs everyday YOU ARE IN PRISON! It should be uncomfortable, more so than it is and then perhaps you would never want to go back. That is the point right, to change the behavior?
