at the fairfax county adult detention center, feeding the 1,200 men and women incarcerated here falls to inmate workers like rasheed conte. in this kitchen, they learn to do things big. right now what i m doing is i m just going to boil the potatoes first, for 45 minutes or an hour. then i m going to take them over, mash them with butter and milk. most jails use instant potatoes. we re using real potatoes here. conte is part of a crew that serves about 26,000 inmate meals a week. they order approximately 30,000 pounds of food per week. 18,000 cookies, 10,600 eight-ounce cartons of milk. approximately 1,400 pounds of sandwich meat per week. the food is prepared by inmates.
now back to lockup. at the fairfax county adult detention center, feeding the 1,200 men and women incarcerated here falls to inmate workers like rasheed conte. in this kitchen, they learn to do things big. right now what i m doing is i m just going to boil the potatoes first, for 45 minutes or an hour. then i m going to take them over, mash them with butter and milk. most jails use instant potatoes. we re using real potatoes here. conte is part of a crew that serves about 26,000 inmate meals a week. they order approximately 30,000 pounds of food per week. 18,000 cookies, 10,600 eight-ounce cartons of milk. approximately 1,400 pounds of
media mogul harvey wine seen the has been fired by the film company he founded. it came after numerous sexual allegations against him were expo exposed. now back to lockup . at the fairfax county adult detention center, feeding the 1,200 men and women incarcerated here falls to inmate workers like rasheed conte. in this kitchen, they learn to do things big. right now what i m doing is i m just going to boil the potatoes first, for 45 minutes or an hour. then i m going to take them over, mash them with butter and milk. most jails use instant potatoes. we re using real potatoes here. conte is part of a crew that serves about 26,000 inmate meals a week. they order approximately
at the fairfax county adult detention center, feeding the 1,200 men and women incarcerated here falls to inmate workers like rasheed conte. in this kitchen, they learn to do things big. right now what i m doing is i m just going to boil the potatoes first, for 45 minutes or an hour. then i m going to take them over, mash them with butter and milk. most jails use instant potatoes. we re using real potatoes here. conte is part of a crew that serves about 26,000 inmate meals a week. they order approximately 30,000 pounds of food per week. 18,000 cookies, 10,600 eight-ounce cartons of milk. approximately 1,400 pounds of sandwich meat per week. the food is prepared by inmates. every 30 days they re down here working, they could receive five days shaved off their sentence.
this is how we do it here. most inmate meals are prepared and served by other inmates. kitchen work is far from glamorous, but it has its perks. the reason i do it is to get out of my cell, come down here, get a little freedom, and eat a little better. ray slagel loved working in the kitchen at the limon correctional facility in colorado because he could trade extra food for tokens, coin slots used to purchase ice cream and soda from prison vending machines. how much was a cheeseburger. two tokens. i said double cheeseburger. i should have shown you one. double cheeseburger, two tokens. that s a good deal. yeah, yeah, i can t even get them fast enough. you know. i usually sell two of those a day. while most menus are designed to provide a basic level of nutrition, steven doad, the food service director at the hillsboro county jail in tampa, florida, has taken a more wholesome approach to inmate meals.