Food 


Comment by “Edna” on cookcountyjail.com – a web site now hacked by corrupt guards that pose as family and post vulgarity and false info. Note that there is no real meat, only textured soy protein substitute, except for occasional chicken and some special medical diets. The use of all soy protein in excessive amounts is toxic (when the amount of soy is excessive, such as totally substituting animal protein with soy – except for occasional egg and small quantity of milk) and there is a suit about this in the Illinois prison system.

“Aramark runs the kitchen. I worked @ another facility where they have the contract. The food was atrocious, they get discounts on rotting trucks of produce, most food supervisors didn’t have offenders sort the rotting food, they just cooked it, mold, rot and all!!

Included in caloric intake daily is KoolAid and sweetened tea. That’s empty calories!! They serve almost no beef products, turkey doesn’t provide needed iron.

Foods are not tempt [at appropriate temperature], they run out of food and reduce portions. They get a carton of milk everyday, fake cheese, and they have to thin out the slop so that it will run through the cook/chill process.

They falsify red books, a breakfast might consist of a cold boiled egg, a piece of turkey sausage the size of a quarter, two slices of bread, no margarine, and a glob of apple jelly that you couldn’t get out of the tray. As I said they counted calories,a teaspoon of ketchup/mustard was included as calories. It always amazed me they would give a teaspoon of ketchup to put on a boloney sandwich for lunch, and serve polish [fake polish made of soy] for dinner with nothing to put on it.

I ate the food a couple of times and got SICK!! I can go on and ON!! [Note that an all soy diet contains 4 to 10 times more soy protein than in a Japanese diet. Excess soy causes diarrhea, hypothyroidism, and can be deadly to people allergic to soy. One woman with an intestinal disease was having bloody diarrhea and  put on potent dangerous drugs and steroids despite the fact she was  allergic to soy and the diet was killing her, because the doctors are not aware that the diets contain all soy protein, except for milk and special medical diets.]

Many offenders are in for minor crimes, traffic tickets, etc. or may not even have committed the crime. I have worked both state and county facilities, Any facility that uses Aramark as their food service contractor should be ashamed, granted they are saving millions,but are violating the civil rights of the offenders they are housing. Not to mention after every meal they are lined up at the crappers, because it runs right through them, thus they are not holding food long enough in their systems to attain any nutritional benefit.”

Lunches are always two pieces of slimey baloney that has a green sheen on it and four pieces of bread with things like a small pack of Doritos, etc. They also get KoolAid type of drink.

Most inmates are slightly dehydrated because they don’t drink enough water and the diet can cause the runs in a lot of people. Tell your relative to drink lots of water.

Fruit is no more than 1-2 small pieces per month.

The diet is inadequate nutritionally. Advise your relative to buy multivitamins from the commissary and take one every day to make up for nutritionally inadequate diet.

Everything has artificial dyes and most of the slop has MSG (monosodium glutamate, a flavor enhancer). MSG can cause strokes in person prone to basilar migraines and triggers migraines.

The boloney is full of nitrates and having  it daily in large quantities causes a very real increased risk of colon cancer. Nitrates also trigger migraines and are potent neurotoxins.  They are found in preserved meats like lunchmeats and in small amounts in natural foods.

It is essential that family and friends put some money ($50  per month at least) on a detainee’s commissary fund so they can purchase some real food from the commissary. Suggest to your detainee family member or friend NOT to buy junk food but to buy things like canned tuna to supplement their diet and replace some of the soy.

Many people gain excessive weight if they obtain the extra bread from other detainees that they don’t eat as their is bread given with every meal in general. Eating only bread is nutritionally bad and causes weight gain.

Others are essentially starving and all are nutritionally deprived.

I suggest you write to the Cook County Board President Preckwinkle and Sheriff Dart as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney Joan Laser to complain and include a reference to the suit about soy and its toxic qualities when given in excess amounts.

Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle
118 N. Clark Street Room 537
Chicago, IL 60602

Cook County Sheriff Dart
Office of Cook County Sheriff
50 W. Washington, Rm 704
Chicago, IL  60602

Asst. U.S. Attorney Joan Laser or
Director Task Force on Civil Rights Violations
at Cook County Jail
219 S. Dearborn Street, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604