Daily Meals
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If an emergency arises that prevents proper planning for a full meal, we do sack lunches but if we’re locked down for an extended period of time we do satellite feeding following the regular meal plan. Typically the kitchen puts the food in styrofoam clam-shell trays, stacks ‘em on a food cart and sends them to the units. In the unit we allow eight inmates out their cells at a time to retrieve their food and return to their cells, as gen. pop. cells don’t have bean slots...
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Improvise, adapt and overcome is a longtime mantra used by the United States Marine Corps, and in some variation or another, by all branches of the U.S. military as well as members of law enforcement. At the New Jersey Department of Corrections, correctional police officers have designed a way to make following that mantra a little easier for their colleagues who also serve in various military reserve components... .. read full story
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