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
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Some fasted�perhaps after glancing at the prison fare of cornbread, beans, greens and fat back.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Their supply of rations was of the most miserable kind, not even as good as prison fare.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward