prison fare
Example Sentences
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Food packages delivered by family members are important to inmates, whose prison fare is substandard.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
If he does, let him live on the prison fare, that’s all.”
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2015
But even with all the food taken from Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although it was dinner-time, and he had eaten nothing, no dainty meal awaited him, such as those he had been accustomed to, nor even was he allowed the ordinary prison fare allotted to well-born culprits.
From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by M?r J?kai
