Page 5 - Kitchen Work News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> we hear a lot of inmates describe prison as the belly of the beast. >> this place sucks, man. >> it's usually not used to describe prison kitchens. but that might be the most appropriate use of the phrase there is. >> our crews are always looking for ways to get these kind of iconic prison or jail shots, and the kitchen is a great place to get them, because i don't think anything really says incarceration more than seeing some bland food scooped on to an institutional tray by a 6'4" inmate covered in tattoos and the funny thing about the food is, inmates always complain about it but inevita...

Life at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida is marked by instances of sheer terror and long spells of sheer monotony. as any one of the inmate kitchen workers can attest to. >> wash about 1,300 of these things twice a day. it gets old. 1,402, see. >> we are making 2,700 biscuits a day to feed the compound. i use 6 to 12 biscuits every time i make them, if i'm hungry. >> i actually work in the pot room, but every day the boss says he calls me up here to work on the line because he needs help. >> kitchen work has proven

Says he calls me up here to work on the line because he needs help. >> kitchen work has proven beneficial for 21-year-old colin mccaffrey, who's serving 15 months for robbery. >> i enjoy it. it's not bad. you eat well. it's a job. it makes the time go by fast, yeah. i haven't worked this hard in a long time. it is the longest i ever kept a job, seriously. i've got a lot of good people looking out for me. you think sometimes they're going to put down on a young person, but it's not like that. they'd rather look out for me. >> one of those friends is biscuit maker, jason piersol. >> he is kind o...

>> we are making 2,700 biscuits a day to feed the compound. i use 6 to 12 biscuits every time i make them, if i'm hungry. >> i actually work in the pot room, but every day the boss says he calls me up here to work on the line because he needs help. >> kitchen work has proven beneficial for 21-year-old colin mccaffrey, who's serving 15 months for robbery. >> i enjoy it. it's not bad. you eat well. it's a job. it makes the time go by fast, yeah. i haven't worked this hard in a long time. it is the longest i ever kept a job, seriously. i've got a lot of good people looking out for me. you think s...

Kitchen work is far from glamorous, but it has its perks. >> the reason i do it is to get out of my cell, you know, come down here, get a little freedom. and, you know, 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. >> 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...