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 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
Instead, he was fed prison fare of salt fish and black bread, and was forced to work in a camp factory.
From Time Magazine Archive
The feelings of Orestes when the Furies reproached him with his mother's death were not more bitter than mine when I was given my prison fare!
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles
