Prisoners in Nevada are Eating Toothpaste, Salt, and Toilet Paper to Stave Off Hunger

The more things change, the more they stay the same

I’ve written in the past about an awful experience I had in prison a decade ago while serving 23 months in prison after blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program.  I was doing my time at the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto, Pennsylvania, a low-security prison in the Appalachian Mountains.  One of the very first things I found, on my very first day, was that the food was bad.  Very bad.