prison fare
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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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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
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Baker appears to be penniless, he is not even able to keep himself while awaiting trial, but is on the ordinary prison fare.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard