Dallas County Jail

Meals

Interview with Charles, m ray, Leon, Jean, Accountant, Hot attorney, Gene, Lil Will and Cam

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Charles: 3 Breakfast is served about 4am, lunch comes about noon, dinner is about 5pm.
m ray: 3
Leon: 3.
Jean: 3 meals. The first meal of the day is at 4am. Lunch is always at 11am, and every day for lunch, all you get is a bologna sandwich. Every day you get a bologna sandwich, some pasta salad, and some fruit, and you always get a cup of Kool-Aid. They give you dinner at 4 in the afternoon - that means you don't get fed again for 12 hours - way too long. Let me tell you about the food in Dallas County. We're in one of those counties or states where it has to be kosher or whatever you want to call it - everything is soybeans, because you have so many ethnic races that they don't feed you real meat. None. Now, the guys would get chicken on Christmas or turkey on Thanksgiving, but the girls never got it. It makes you sicker than a dog the first week you're there.

As far as us not getting the good food, I don't know why. You tell me. Men get preferential treatment at the Dallas County Jail, and it's always been that way. For commissary, they always go to the men first. By the time they get to you, there's nothing on the commissary cart.
Accountant: While in Irving there was one hot meal, in Dallas, there was breakfast at I think 6am, and it was a sandwich, and an empty cup-you have to get your water from the toilet hand wash bowl.
Hot attorney: 3
Gene: 2. Breakfast doesn't count as a meal. A roll and coffee is a snack.
Lil Will: 3 if you can call it that.
Cam: 3..Lunch was always the same..Bologna sandwiches and whatever sides you got, well you got..

JM: How would you rate the food?
Charles: Terrible, only thing i would eat is the waffles for breakfast, gave the rest away.
m ray: the nastys sh* ever and u dont get much
Leon: The food quality was ok the portions were to small. You stayed pretty hungry unless you had commissary.
Jean: The food is awful so you really should try to get commissary. It comes every day (it's a lady with a cart). She's got Ramen noodles and flip flops and soap - all the stuff you might need is on that cart. You put money on your books, and they give you a little band that's like a UPC barcode, and they scan it. Don't try to pull your chip out and put it in someone else's band because that chip identifies who you are. They'll know you swapped. If you get caught swapping you'll get in trouble - they check your band all the time to make sure you haven't tampered with it.

Some girls buy commissary for other people - like some girls might have gone to the doctor or something, or you might have a buddy that's on work release, and she might be gone for the day and she needs commissary and you don't have any money. So you do it for your friends. You do a lot of shit you wouldn't think you'd do. You always think there's a way to beat the system.
Accountant: Declined all food/drinks...... No privacy, didn't want to use the restroom in front of entire staff/inmates.
Hot attorney: Barely fit for human consumption.
Gene: On a scale of 1 to 10, a 3.
Lil Will: 2 on scale to 10
Cam: on a scale of 1 to 10 and 10 being the highest.. 3 across the board..

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Charles: Waffles were ok.
m ray: breakfast
Leon: Not really.
Jean: No - even the commissary selection wasn't very good. Well, that's not always true - some days it would be good and some days it wouldn't. Quite truly, I would do commissary once a month, but some days you just want a Coca Cola - you just want one - and the commissary cart would get there, and she's got no soft drinks. You get tired of drinking Kool Aid - besides that, Kool Aid causes yeast infections, and then you can't see the doctor. So lots of time you eat ramen noodles like it's nobody's business when you have commissary money. You damn sure make sure you get as many ramens as you can. You're gonna get tired of eating that bologna at lunch.
Accountant: N/A Didn't Eat..
Hot attorney: There was one hot burrito meal that was ok.
Cam: lunch was always the least favorite..and chicken fried steak was my favorite..

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals?
Charles: I lived off commissary. I ate Raman noodles, summer sausage, chips, candy bars and such.
m ray: if you have money
Leon: Only commissary if you have money on your account.
Jean: Just the commissary. The cool thing about it is, the black girls always want that chocolate candy bar or cookies or something, so when I'd trade, I'd always trade it for something that would be more substantial like ramen noodles - well, mostly ramen noodles. I'd never trade my crap because I liked my crap! I bought it for me!
Accountant: No
Hot attorney: No.
Lil Will: make store you need it.
Cam: Commissary only..