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
Some fasted�perhaps after glancing at the prison fare of cornbread, beans, greens and fat back.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
