Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120930:09:42:00
Every day at elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana, the kitchen staff is challenged with cooking for the facilities 2,100 inmates and the 750 correctional staff members who work here. over the course of a year, some 2.5 million meals are prepared by inmates in this kitchen serving staple foods and sides like cornbread and chocolate chip cookie can be expensive but they manage to keep costs down in part because they grow much of their own food on site. >> i'm proud to say that we have one of the lowest food costs per day in the state. food casts $1.31 a day, not just one meal, but three h...