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
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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
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A cleverer cook than I could devise a hundred simple dishes for caravan cookery, but I do not think my menu is altogether prison fare.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon