How Bad Is Prison Food?

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How Bad Is Prison Food?

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May 31, 2019

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Serving inmates low-quality food is cheap in the short term, but it can lead all kinds of health problems that prisons (and taxpayers) pay for in the long run. Learn how cheap American prison food is and why that's a problem in this episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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May 31, 2019

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