by Erika Camplin From the publisher: America seems presently fascinated by prison culture and the inner workings of what happens behind clinked doors. With TV shows creating binge-watchers of us […]
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Tasty menu at Alcatraz federal prison in September 1946
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary opened in 1933 on an island in the San Francisco Bay to house troublemakers from other prisons. It closed in 1963 and was replaced by a prison […]
New York City guts successful school lunch program in 1919
A few days before Thanksgiving in 1908, the home economist Mabel Hyde Kittredge initiated a school lunch program at an elementary school in Hell’s Kitchen, serving soup and bread to […]
Mississippi convicts pardoned for eating diet suspected of causing pellagra
Pellagra, a disease caused by a lack of vitamin B-3 (niacin) in the diet, became epidemic among the poor in the southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. […]
History of School Lunch programs in the United States
Philadelphia and Boston were the first major cities to actively attempt to implement a school lunch program in the United States. Philadelphia began by serving penny lunches at one school […]
No more bread-and-water punishment in Navy
Beginning January 1, 2019, the traditional naval punishment of jailing junior sailors for three days with just bread and water to eat and drink went the way of flogging and keelhauling. […]