With the vast majority of people in prison being completely dependent on the facility’s food service, people in prison have found the topic of food to be a unifying force among them within the divisive prison environment

This subscriber shares how certain meals like “meal-loaf” have had a dehumanizing effect, especially when served back to back for several meals throughout the week:

Another subscriber in similarly shares, “it is common for a man to accept being belittled to get a packout snack”

Mailed from Telfair State Prison (GA)

Have the conditions of prison created an environment so desperate that one’s dignity is negotiable in the face of a sanwhich?

Mailed from CDCr

Even moreso, these conditions create a hierarchy of food access with those that have the ability to make larger canteen purchases at the top of the totem pole:

Mailed from Sterling Correctional Facility (CO)

Mailed from Western Missouri Correctional Institution

In desperate conditions, people in prison have been able to demonstrate solidarity amongst one another towards a common goal:

Mailed from Tabor Correctional Institution

In response to a notice sent to people incarcerated in Clallam Bay Corrections Center that hot meals would no longer be available to the entire population, there was an immidate call for action that SawariMedia amplified in support of our incarcerated readers:

Mailed from Clallam Bay Corrections Center

We were honnored to have the opportunity to support an inside effort led in solidarity with incarcerated citizens across security levels, ethnic and racial identities:

Mailed from Clallam Bay Corrections Center

After a successful demonstration the food service change was called off by the prison staff as seen in the letter and notice included below: