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
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
Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was furnished with comfortable refreshment instead of the repulsive prison fare, and, after breakfast, was permitted to write a letter to the National Assembly upon her illegal arrest.
From Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
