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TDCJ Selling Counterfeit Meat
Loaded on July 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1995, page 12
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice(TDCJ) is getting into the fast food business. This is a new and different type of fast food, though. What makes it a fast is how fast prisoners whisk their trays to the garbage can to dump the fake soy-based meat substitute off of their …
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