Jefferson County Jail

Meals

Interview with Cami and Tombstone

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Cami: We had three meals.
Tombstone: 3; breakfast about 6.30am,lunch about 11a;than dinner about 5p,breakfast would be a couple of spoonfuls of eggs,a biscuit,maybe a couple of prunes,& coffee,lunch was the best meal,2 hot dogs,a spoonful of beans,& maybe a small slice of cake;dinner was the smallest meal of the day,veggie spaghetti,lima beans ,& a biscuit,

JM: How would you rate the food?
Cami: Worse than old school food we used to have to eat.
Tombstone: some of it was ok, the portions are so small you stay hungry all the time, in Alabama the sheriff gets to keep whatever funds are left over from his food budget as salary,,so common sense tells you,he`s not going to go out of his way.We`re talking thousands of dollars,he gets to keep.It still really pisses me off today,I was starving-literally.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Cami: No, I would eat enough to survive and give the rest away.
Tombstone: Dinner was always crap,but they did have some good lunches,just small portions, one good one- hamburger steak & gravy;one terrible-fried okra,a boiled potato,a biscuit,& one slice of canned peaches, & always grape koolaid,never any milk,to drink--& only one small cup of that

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals?
Cami: Commissary was offered, you fill out a sheet of what snacks you want, then the following week you received the food. This was only available if you had money on your books.
Tombstone: No snacks;every afternoon, a cart would come around & you could buy a large cup of Pepsi;sometimes the trusties would have food down their pants,like the hot dogs,& you could buy them if you have the quarters,which tells you how bad things are in there.They do have a commissary there-owned by the sheriff!where you can buy snacks-another reason to starve you,you buy more!