WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement after the Bureau of Prisons officially responded to his request for information regarding the decision to remove pork from the federal prisons’ menus. After Grassley learned of the removal and asked questions, the bureau reversed its decision and put pork back on the menu.
Grassley’s letter to the Bureau of Prisons is here. The bureau’s response is here.
“I’ll give the Bureau credit for at least admitting they screwed up. They claimed at one point that the cost of pork was too high, and that the surveys showed that prisoners didn’t like pork. None of that is accurate, so it begs the question, ‘How did this stupid decision get made?’ And, considering how things work in this town and the previous lack of candor, I don’t buy their answer that the costs to implement the survey were negligible.”
11 thoughts on “Grassley on prisons’ decision to take pork off menu: ‘How did this stupid decision get made?’”
Moochell now does prison food management ?- the islamies are afraid of porky.
inmate eating preference, holy shit, they’re in prison. Why do they get a choice. I’m sure they eat better then I do, and I worked, for a paying job for 45 years.
@Allen-I completely agree. When they went to prison they gave up all rights to choose.
Yeah, shouldn’t they just have bread and water? That will teach them.
@Bodacious-What has that got to do with being able to pick and choose your menu? If they wanted choice they should have obeyed the law and not gone to prison.
That is true but this is America. We don’t treat people, irregardless of their crime, like animals. Living one’s life in a cage is bad enough.
Maybe if we did we wouldn’t have so many repeat offenders. Because of liberal judges giving the poor boys a pass our jails and prisons are full of repeats.
Or maybe we have all those repeat offenders because the conservatives believe in beating someone down and hopefully into submission rather than rehabilitation.
@Bodacious-I know you can read. Try reading the paper or looking at N.I.T. and then tell me there isn’t a crime problem in this town. The jail has more people in it than it ever has and most are repeat offenders.
That’s my point. Cerro Gordo county/MC has a crime problem and it is because rehabilitation isn’t in Pals’ dictionary.
My comment came up as anonymous.