I read in a Michigan paper that they released all the inmates in one of their prisons to ease their deficit and now in order to save the jobs of the guards that worked there are going to rent that prison and it's services to California to help ease overcrowding. This is one of the issues being addressed in the closed door meeting it said. Calif. is taking away from education and health services so it can rent another money pit from another state! It's a shame others states are taking advantage of Cali just because it's slower to learn than they.

Our problems with California and CDCr are just beginning to come to light!

or dark, as the case may be.

You should see the food a diabetic is being fed in the State prisons. Any diabetic in prison is sentenced to death.

My son's diabetes is so out of control he has been rushed to outside hospitals with blood sugar as high as 1,115 true story. I have the hospital records to prove it.

He is being injected insulin and on a calorie diet of 1500 per day. The doctor ordered an 2200 calorie diet to prevent the nausea caused by the high dosage of insulin and the prison just ignored the doctors orders.

The biggest thing they give him to eat is bread and peanut butter and a small container of milk.

For lunch he gets the mystery meat and about four tablespoons of corn, a cookie of some kind and small container of milk.

They grow apples on some of the prison farms, so they will put one apple on the food tray. I have been in the prison hospital room visiting when they have served the food. Noting is hot, all the food is cold.

What they make to look like meat, does not even smell like meat, it has a smell of something that has been sitting out of the refrigerator for about two days.

I believe these types of diets for diabetics are criminal and done with a deliberate indifference.
I wonder if we are running prison rehabilitation facilities or concentration camps?

You should see the food a diabetic is being fed in the State prisons. Any diabetic in prison is sentenced to death.

My son's diabetes is so out of control he has been rushed to outside hospitals with blood sugar as high as 1,115 true story. I have the hospital records to prove it.

He is being injected insulin and on a calorie diet of 1500 per day. The doctor ordered an 2200 calorie diet to prevent the nausea caused by the high dosage of insulin and the prison just ignored the doctors orders.

The biggest thing they give him to eat is bread and peanut butter and a small container of milk.

For lunch he gets the mystery meat and about four tablespoons of corn, a cookie of some kind and small container of milk.

They grow apples on some of the prison farms, so they will put one apple on the food tray. I have been in the prison hospital room visiting when they have served the food. Noting is hot, all the food is cold.

What they make to look like meat, does not even smell like meat, it has a smell of something that has been sitting out of the refrigerator for about two days.

I believe these types of diets for diabetics are criminal and done with a deliberate indifference.
I wonder if we are running prison rehabilitation facilities or concentration camps?

You people kill me. Just a guy (Or Just a fake) couldn't possibly have made these postings while in prison. He was able to post daily on this blog even though he claimed to be in San Quentin. I can tell you after working there for nearly twenty years there is no way he do it. The mail takes days to get in and out so he can't do it that way. There is no internet access in prison. And in at least one posting he claimed to be in lockup. They don't even get phone calls there. I can tell you the food there is as good as any school lunch. I have eaten it many times as a taste tester during my years in the dining hall. You people always look ou tfor the poor inmate. Believe me they have it much better then most of the poor in this state. Wake Up People he is a fake!!!

Jokerman: If you had read Just A Guy's "Donte Stallworth" blog, you would know that he's working from a cell phone. Yes, illegally, but what do you want to bet that a guard gave/sold it to him? It amazes me that $70,000+ a year just isn't enough for some folks, but I digress...
As far as the food, not only is it becoming more scarce, the inmates are fed things you wouldn't give a dog. (See photo taken from contraband cell phone above for reference). Another reason prisoners shouldn't have cell phones, huh? It's terrible how they can be used to expose the luxurious vacation getaway called the CDCr, where they "have it so good". One of the documented instances of food fed to prisoner's (in a number of different prisons) is the long out of date, RECALLED peanut butter crackers. You know, the ones that were killing people throughout the country with salmonella. Yummy, huh?
Quality (and even quantity) of food varies by prison, and years ago it WAS better! Heck, months ago it was better. Either you no longer work for CDCr, or you haven't seen some of the food coming out of the kitchen. But to say that prisoner's have it "much better than most of the poor in this state" is an incredibly ignorant comment. If you don't realize that, I'm certainly not going to try and educate you on the difference between FREEDOM and NON-FREEDOM.

Twice this week I have tried to leave a message on this blog and it has not appeared. This is not the first time it has happened.

Why are my posts not appearing?

I'll try this for the third time. JAG, may I use the picture of the roast beef on my prison food website? You can view it at: http://hatfield.homestead.com/FoodIssues.html

That pic looks like a flattened cow "patty". My son says the "roast beef" has a texture and taste more like horse than cow (don't ask me how he knows what horse tastes like - I don't want to know LMAO)

All of you like to feel sorry for the inmates, try feeling sorry for the homeless. Ask them what they ate today. Try feeding 180,000 inmates three times a day 365 days a year. Not everything is going to be perfect. I have a suggestion to get better food, stay out of prison. If you were not in prison, you wouldn't worry about the food being served in prison. Inmates need to stop complaining and realize they have it good. I’m not guaranteed three meals a day, I can’t sit around for 24 hours a day and only worry about yard and my next workout, and I don’t have FREE medical insurance. Go find the victims of these child molesters, murderers, and rapist and ask them if they feel sorry for these inmates. Do you feel sorry about the pain they will have to endure for the rest of their lives? Madhatter if your son is at Mule Creek (this is an SNY prison), he’s there for a reason. Why doesn’t he go to a mainline, that way you really have something to worry about? As for the diabetic, he sure wasn’t being careful when he got CAUGHT and CONVICTED of whatever crime he committed.

All of you like to feel sorry for the inmates, try feeling sorry for the homeless. Ask them what they ate today. Try feeding 180,000 inmates three times a day 365 days a year. Not everything is going to be perfect. I have a suggestion to get better food, stay out of prison. If you were not in prison, you wouldn't worry about the food being served in prison. Inmates need to stop complaining and realize they have it good. I’m not guaranteed three meals a day, I can’t sit around for 24 hours a day and only worry about yard and my next workout, and I don’t have FREE medical insurance. Go find the victims of these child molesters, murderers, and rapist and ask them if they feel sorry for these inmates. Do you feel sorry about the pain they will have to endure for the rest of their lives? Madhatter if your son is at Mule Creek (this is an SNY prison), he’s there for a reason. Why doesn’t he go to a mainline, that way you really have something to worry about? As for the diabetic, he sure wasn’t being careful when he got CAUGHT and CONVICTED of whatever crime he committed.

Mr Walker/WALKS - There is an old saying - There but for the grace of God go I. YOU could be where my son is. My son was railroaded into taking a plea for a crime he did not commit, just like thousands of others who are in prison today.

Now, lets go into what can happen to innocent people who are put in prison. THEY become victims. My son was assaulted by other prisoners less than 30 days after he arrived. He ended up with a skull fracture and nerve damage in his back. He sees double in one eye and has lost about 75% of the use of his right leg.

Now, if YOU had been assaulted like this, you could have gone to any emergency room for treatment immediately and be seen by a doctor whether you had insurance or not. My son was seen by a nurse who applied a bandage and gave him Ibuprofen for pain. There was no x-ray done for almost 2 months on his head, and they ignored the back injuries all together.

Why doesn't he go mainline? The prison that this happened at did not even fill out an incident report on this. The names of who attacked him are not known. With his now permanent disabilities, he would be a target on a General Population yard.

As for diabetes - are you aware that more and more inmates are contracting it? The prison diet is full of fat, sugar & carbohydrates and very low on fresh fruit and vegetables. It is my belief that this is causing a major portion of diabetes in prisons today and that is why I am working to get a healthier diet in prisons.

Just a side note - if the prisoners were healthier it would save the taxpayers of California a LOT of money. A healthy prisoner costs about $47,000 a year but a sick prisoner can cost twice that. And prisoners who require hospitalization can cost over a million each.

Wouldn't it be SMARTER to keep them healthy?

First off I would never be where your son is. I would never put myself in a position to end up in prison. Do you know how many times I hear the “it’s not my fault” excuse, it’s sad. Take responsibility for what you did, man up and do the time. Innocent people in prison…Find me an innocent inmate. You have to go deeper than my son was assaulted. Why did this occur? Did he say something wrong? Do something wrong? Once again if he didn’t commit the crime he wouldn’t be at Mule Creek. Ahh prison medical care…some of the finest in the world. War veterans from all generations are coming back to what? Finding out the citizens don’t like them for fighting for this country. They aren’t coming back with a guaranteed job or medical insurance. How many medical transports go out everyday across the state for headaches? Maybe the officers didn’t see your son in the fight. They can’t x-ray every prisoner who is involved in a fist fight. Well yeah since he went to Mule Creek he can’t go mainline, but why not right from county jail? I know it’s hard to imagine, but if you don’t do crimes you won’t end up in prison. Hang on ill make my point soon. So, you aren’t committing crimes and you wouldn’t be in prison and you would have to eat the crappy food. It’s not rocket science. $47,000 a year per inmate IS way too much. You know California is the highest in the country when it comes to cost of medical per inmate. The feds would like to take over CDCr and you know they won’t go for $47,000 a year. They won’t change the food. They wouldn’t send someone to an outside hospital for a headache. Sorry, but tell your son to suck it up and chalk that assault up to experience.