Question:
This is a wild question/Asking out of curiousity actually....

But is there anyone who has had surgery and then had to go to jail/prison, I was wondering what you would do about your new eating habits, do they accommodate you in there or what? I know this sounds a bit odd, but I am just wondering if this situation has ever occurred.......    — blank first name B. (posted on March 11, 2002)

March 11, 2002
OMG I just cant believe it. My hub and I were watching a cops type of show and were wondering the same thing! I dont have an answer but would like to comment on your GREAT question!~lol
   — Sassy M.

March 11, 2002
while I have been fortunate and never been in jail, I would'nt think they would cater to a persons needs that way..maybe medicine needed, but I doubt they will give "special" foods..a person would have to make due with what was given. Afterall they would be in jail because they broke a law-committed a crime...not to be catered to...It would be a shame for that to happen to a person and them not get what they needed.
   — Patricia R.

March 11, 2002
Just recently there was a BIG article in our paper about jail food. YES they do have to accomodate MEDICAL FOOD NEEDS. So diabetics and WLS patients would get special consideration. Our local lockup spends just under $2 a day feeding the immates a high carb diet cause its cheap. That wouldnt do for a WLS patient. Jails ALSO have to accomodste religious needs like no pork for the jewish. I hope no one has done something bad to get locked up. It would be sad to finally get your life back then see it pass sitting behind bars.
   — bob-haller

March 12, 2002
This question made me giggle ~ who knows, huh? I guess one of the crummiest things in the entire world would be to get fit, in health, feeling all good about yourself and end up in prison where you get to interact with all woman or all men all day long. Nope, not for me - I'll just stay on the straight & narrow. Hope this never happens to anyone else either.... : ) .. I love the things this website people can think of.
   — Lisa J.

March 12, 2002
Bob is right in what he shared here. I'm a volunteer with the prison system (Christian ministry)and know that if a special diet was medically necessary most places would proivide it. The problem is does the facility considered it that way. I just wanted to make one comment to the person who feels this would be "catering" to an inmate. In the United States the punishment for crime is jail/prison. It is not for them to punished again while in prison. I can assure you after speading time ministring to men and women in prison that no one is being "catered" too. A medically necessary diet would be a civil thing to provide.
   — Cheryl S.

March 15, 2002
Is there something you may want to share with us, get off of your chest??? Just joking. LOL
   — ChristineB

July 14, 2004
Interesting question (and why am I going through the archives several years late? Why not?). Anyway, regarding jail food and accomodations, recently there was a case locally (a notorious bomber, now elderly and diabetic) where the inmate claimed that the prison was not providing for his diabetic diet and not allowing him to have his insulin or other diabetes medicines. The prison is denying it of course, but knowing too many people in corrections makes me believe this old bomber's claims--they are trying to kill him by withholding or delaying his needed medications. It ain't all that rare in the prison system. Yes, he is a murderer. Does that give the prison the right to withhold needed medications? So, yeah, legally they must be accomodating, but in reality, I think you could just forget it. Just try to get by eating what you can and avoiding what you should not eat. Just my 2 cents worth.
   — Cisbell

July 14, 2004
Interesting question (and why am I going through the archives several years late? Why not?). Anyway, regarding jail food and accomodations, recently there was a case locally (a notorious bomber, now elderly and diabetic) where the inmate claimed that the prison was not providing for his diabetic diet and not allowing him to have his insulin or other diabetes medicines. The prison is denying it of course, but knowing too many people in corrections makes me believe this old bomber's claims--they are trying to kill him by withholding or delaying his needed medications. It ain't all that rare in the prison system. Yes, he is a murderer. Does that give the prison the right to withhold needed medications? So, yeah, legally they must be accomodating, but in reality, I think you could just forget it. Just try to get by eating what you can and avoiding what you should not eat. Just my 2 cents worth.
   — Cisbell