Dreading St. Patty's Day?

[conuly]

All that oddly colored booze getting you down?

Switch to St. Catty's Day! Cat ear headbands for everybody!

♥   =^.^=   ♥



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China sets aside crops for wild elephants to spare farmers

Lady Fishbourne's Complete Guide to Better Table Manners (Short cartoon from 1976)

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Americans drinking more gourmet coffee than ever before: survey

40 Stories From Women About Life in the Military

Who Maps the World?

For Some Teens With Debilitating Pain, The Treatment Is More Pain (I don't think this article proves the point, but if you're desperate anything seems worth trying and might be.)

Long overlooked by science, pregnancy is finally getting attention it deserves

The Surprising Benefits of Serving Prisoners Better Food

The Manafort sentence is a lesson in white privilege, but the solution isn’t to inflate sentences for wealthy white men—it’s to reduce sentences for poor people of color.

Hunter High School Is 9 Percent Black or Hispanic. Why Isn’t It Part of the Diversity Debate?

How Teacher Training Hinders Special-Needs Students

Inspired by #MeToo, Serbian woman speaks out and fights back

Domestic Violence Doesn’t Always Look Like We Think

Ahead of court ruling, Census Bureau seeks citizenship data

Prison Gerrymandering Distorts Our Democracy in the Worst Ways

The Major Street Design Flaw That's Killing Americans (Video)

Whose Key West? Climate change is driving up the price of paradise.

Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out

People Need to Be Scared About Climate Change. They Also Need to Recognize That It’s Not Too Late.

Bold Plan? Replace the Border Wall with an Energy–Water Corridor

On U.S. border, fence meant as barrier becomes lure for migrants

Tijuana Is Overwhelmed by a Rush of Asylum-Seekers—Many of Them Women With Children

Two years after tragedy, can Guatemala rethink child protection?

More civilians leave Islamic State's Syria enclave, delaying final assault

Comments

[ratcreature]

None of the prison food effects from that article seem actually surprising. I mostly wondered how with dismal systems like that they are coping with vegetarian/vegan inmates, religious rules or even just inmates' food allergies and intolerances. Of course considering how dismal the US is with prisoner rights, I suspect they just don't...

Incidentally it seems really outrageous that prisoners are counted for representation proportions but then aren't even allowed to vote (in my country ever since a reform in 1969 you don't loose voting rights as a prisoner generally, except for a limited time for treason and election fraud convictions, though loosing the right to stand for election for five years is common if the sentence was more than a year in prison).

[conuly]

They actually do provide kosher meals - I've posted a few links on that over the years. Kosher meals are very much in demand due to the perception that they are superior than the regular ones. They may actually *be* superior depending on the contractor.

But given that prisons sell food at jacked up prices at the commissary they certainly have a vested interest in shaving off every penny from the food they're required to serve!