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.”
