EDITORIAL: 'Improving food quality to improve security should be high on (the new sheriff)'s list. In the meantime, the jail might want to consider outside alternatives, such as McDonald’s Mondays.'
A Cuyahoga County Corrections Corporal sent jail administrators this photo of a meal that provider Trinity Services Group served to inmates on May 30, 2023, warning that the poor food quality might start a riot, if not corrected. The photo appears to show a meal of beef and potatoes in a gravy mixture, with a side of corn. Cuyahoga County is moving to extend its contract for food service at the county jail for at least two months at a cost of more than $900,000.
Trinity’s food service has been mired in controversy, as inmates and corrections officers alike have repeatedly condemned its poor quality. They’ve reported undercooked meals, dinners that failed to meet nutritional standards and generally tasteless and unappetizing presentation that some have compared to vomit.
“I am scared for my life, and the life of our officers who are asked to hand out these horrible meals,” Corporal William Jordan wrote in an email shared with Gibson, supervisors, corporals, and other managers. “We have gotten away with this horrible practice for long enough, thankfully without a riot happening,” Jordan wrote. “WE NEED SOME HELP!”
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