Franklin County cutting out doughnuts for inmates

[The Straight Story]

Franklin County cutting out doughnuts for inmates


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Doughnuts will no longer be served to Franklin County jail inmates, a move aimed at improving their health.

County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy put a $55,000 annual contract for the doughnuts on hold last month over questions about their nutritional value and trans-fat content.

Since then, sheriff's officials have dropped a request asking commissioners to approve a contract with Jolly Pirate Enterprises, a suburban Whitehall company that would have supplied glazed and jelly doughnuts, as well as crullers, at $4 a dozen.

"There won't be doughnuts," said Chief Deputy Sheriff Mark Barrett, the jail administrator. "It was not a frequent food item to begin with."

Prisoners at the county's two correctional centers were served doughnuts every few weeks on a menu developed by a dietitian under contract with the county.

The county's decision to eliminate doughnuts from inmates' diets comes as artery-clogging trans fats are being removed from various types of foods.

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[tblue]

1. So we'll have health arteries flowing behind them bars. On Alcatraz tours, they tell you, you gotta

feed the inmates well, or there will be hell to pay keeping them in line. What's a donut?

[jdadd]

2. Ha!! Bet the Deputy's are pissed....

They have to buy their own doughnuts now :donut:

[Bluebear]

3. Just a hunch that they started the initiative on death row.

You know, keep them condemned folk nice and healthy.