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Washington Prison Food Factory Cooks Up Controversy
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1997, page 6
The idea was peddled to the Washington state legislature as a scheme to save tax dollars: a giant prison food factory manufacturing institutional meals on a vast scale for sale to other prisons. "Build it," they said.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Prison Industries,
Food.
Location:
Washington.
When the $3.5 million "Correctional Industries" food factory opened in 1995 at Airway ...
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