DMC Inmates to get more food
Des Moines County jail inmates will be receiving more calories in their daily diet. The agency that looks over the facility's menus informed jail administrator Doug Ervine the jail was using an incorrect calorie number to put together inmate meals. "They said we have to use 2,400 calories," Ervine said. Currently, the jail serves inmates 2,000 calories per day. Ervine said he believed this was the correct number of calories to be served and was told only recently that inmates must be given more calories. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sedentary men between t...
Source: thehawkeye.com