We fed the ones in the hole what was on the menu except they got water and
no desert.
Back in the day the convicts were fed
very well....None of that processed crap they feed now.
We grew/raised almost all our meats and vegetables. A couple Units had apple/peach orchards.
We had a commercial cannery at the women's prison that canned what was grown at the State Farm for our use and the excess was sold under the Pocahontas and Powhatan brands.
Most of the rest (grains, flour, grits, cornmeal, rice, and such) came from the USDA.....Fresh baked bread or yeast rolls
every day.
One Unit near the Bay even had a fishing boat and provided salted herring for the whole system.
From '74 to about 1980 we drank USGI coffee from the Korean war era! It was right stout but still good.