Nutraloaf
Nutraloaf is food that is used as a system of punishment for offenders who act out against the rules of a jail in order to change their behavior. This is wrong since this causes a person to suffer in order to retain their basic human needs. This should be outlawed in the prisons by the people as of the fact it violates the inmate's’ eighth amendment in the bill of right stopping the federal government from imposing cruel and unusual punishment.
Nutraloaf is seen by some people to be a good thing because it punishes offenders who are harming other people. Nutraloaf is an alternative to the extreme of solitary confinement. Some believe this adheres to the constitution on account of all nutritional values are met. Like …show more content…
As said in “the Huffington Post”, “Prisoners in several states, including Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, New York and Washington, have even sued over Nutraloaf or its equivalent, claiming that the punitive food is so awful that it’s unconstitutional” (Dominique Mosbergen Para 6 ). The author states here that nutraloaf is so abhorrent that not only do the inmates not want to eat it but that this infringes on their constitutional rights as an american. In a court case in 2008, the prisoners tried a new approach to deter nutraloaf in their daily lives. In Case 11: …show more content…
The bread does not taste bad but rather lacking in flavor. The bread is hard, dry and heavy. Wcax.com says that nutraloaf is made out of: six slices finely chopped whole wheat bread, four ounces finely grated non-dairy cheese, finely grated four ounces raw carrots, twelve ounces canned spinach, four ounces seedless raisins two cups great northern beans, four tablespoons vegetable oil, six ounces Tomato Paste, eight ounces powdered skim milk, and six ounces dehydrated potato flakes. (“Recipe for Nutraloaf” Para 1). An unappetizing food all mushed together and cooked into a bread like substance given to prisoners three meals a day for weeks at a time after they misbehaved. Prison culture says that “Nutraloaf is a culinary triumph; any recipe that renders all 13 of its ingredients completely mute is some kind of miracle” (“Prison culture” Para 17). With this statement the author portrays that nutraloaf is a insipidly tasting food that is wretched for the inmates to
Nutraloaf is food that is used as a system of punishment for offenders who act out against the rules of a jail in order to change their behavior. This is wrong since this causes a person to suffer in order to retain their basic human needs. This should be outlawed in the prisons by the people as of the fact it violates the inmate's’ eighth amendment in the bill of right stopping the federal government from imposing cruel and unusual punishment.
Nutraloaf is seen by some people to be a good thing because it punishes offenders who are harming other people. Nutraloaf is an alternative to the extreme of solitary confinement. Some believe this adheres to the constitution on account of all nutritional values are met. Like …show more content…
As said in “the Huffington Post”, “Prisoners in several states, including Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, New York and Washington, have even sued over Nutraloaf or its equivalent, claiming that the punitive food is so awful that it’s unconstitutional” (Dominique Mosbergen Para 6 ). The author states here that nutraloaf is so abhorrent that not only do the inmates not want to eat it but that this infringes on their constitutional rights as an american. In a court case in 2008, the prisoners tried a new approach to deter nutraloaf in their daily lives. In Case 11: …show more content…
The bread does not taste bad but rather lacking in flavor. The bread is hard, dry and heavy. Wcax.com says that nutraloaf is made out of: six slices finely chopped whole wheat bread, four ounces finely grated non-dairy cheese, finely grated four ounces raw carrots, twelve ounces canned spinach, four ounces seedless raisins two cups great northern beans, four tablespoons vegetable oil, six ounces Tomato Paste, eight ounces powdered skim milk, and six ounces dehydrated potato flakes. (“Recipe for Nutraloaf” Para 1). An unappetizing food all mushed together and cooked into a bread like substance given to prisoners three meals a day for weeks at a time after they misbehaved. Prison culture says that “Nutraloaf is a culinary triumph; any recipe that renders all 13 of its ingredients completely mute is some kind of miracle” (“Prison culture” Para 17). With this statement the author portrays that nutraloaf is a insipidly tasting food that is wretched for the inmates to