a little salt would be nice, but and pepper. but other than that, it s, you know, it is hard. you keep looking over your shoulder at the other chef here. how come? i work for him, so that s like the boss. so i m making sure i don t say anything too bad. i don t want to offend him or say anything out of line. i m sure i ll have a little talk with him when we re done with this conversation. back at the limon correctional facility, we encounter perhaps the most unusual of all inmate meals. it s called meal loaf. prepared for us by captain urel hubbard. it s a sort of self-contained meal for inmates who tend to throw their food in their cells or at others. what we ve got here basically is all of the food groups. nine ounces of ground beef, carrots are weighed out, shredded potatoes, shredded cabbage, seven ounces. vegetable oil.
and that will be one inmate s meal for one day. i wouldn t eat that. that s good. you for real, man? this is good? the only difference is you don t get salt and pepper. that s horrible. i don t think a dog would eat that. it s good. while hall is facing at least several days of living in a stripped-down cell with only meal loaf to eat, ray slagle has just received considerably better news. he s earned good time, has been recalculated, moving his release date up by two months, meaning he ll be out of prison in another eight weeks. he has one goal that stands above the others. be a good father, be a good grandfather and get to know my kid. my rayven, i love her a lot. i don t even know her. she don t know me. she thinks i m a hard, callous man is what she thinks. i sent her a picture of me and the fellows. there s 13 of us. she wrote me back, dad, you re not a white supremacist, are you?
a practice roy gave up when the prison began using oc gas. or pepper spray. that stuff is really powerful. that will make anyone tap out. i would rather have my ass kicked then get hit by that. it s really bad. you can t breathe and it burns like fire. this is really bad stuff. and jonathan hall has just gotten his second dose of it in two days. this time, officers extracted him after he flooded his cell and refused orders to comply. our crew shot the extraction on prison security monitors. hall eventually complied and was placed back in his cell. but there was more trouble overnight. last night we gave him his meal, spaghetti. he smeared it all over the window. he lunged at the officers. they had to restrain him with the shield. they took him over to the other holding cell. this morning we had medical go over and do an evaluation, mental health do an evaluation and we re starting meal loaf because he used his food to obstruct the cell.
angry with correctional staff for photographing gang graffiti in his cell. he has had two cell extractions in which he was sprayed with burning oc gas. he s been put in a stripped-down cell and ordered to eat meal loaf after throwing his dinner at the door. but eventually he calmed down and spoke to us about what is really important to him. probably the most important piece of property i have is my pictures. it s memories, things that i m missing out there on the streets. so it s really important to me. this is me, my son, and my wife when my son was first born. i felt like my destiny was fulfilled, that that was what i was put on earth to do was to have my son. while our introduction to hall left an impression of an inmate out of control, we learned there was another side
meal loaf, two of the most dreaded words in prison. this loaf is used for inmates who abuse food or food service equipment in the process of consuming their meals. for example, if they throw their food tray at somebody or something along those lines. what we ve got here is basically all of the food groups. nine ounces of ground beef, we need two ounces, shredded potatoes, shredded cabbage, vegetable oil, tomato puree. by reputation, they don t care for it at all. i ve tasted it, as a matter of fact, and it s not really that bad. the recipe says put it in a low pan, but this one will do just fine and go in the oven at 325 degrees. mm-mmm, very, very nutritious dish. we put it in the refrigerator, cool it down, cut it into three equal portions.