Thanks to Al's Morning Meeting reader Claire Duquette, who spotted this good story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The story says county jails are cutting back on their food because costs are rising. You might want to ask about this locally.

The story includes this passage:

As global food prices soar, corrections facilities across the country and in Wisconsin are trimming some of the extras from their menus and devising other creative ways to save cash.

Behind bars in Clark County, Wash., jelly has vanished from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Bread is becoming a luxury of sorts for inmates in Wisconsin.

And those locked in the Milwaukee County jail could soon see dessert disappear.

"Why should they get dessert?" said Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. "I don't even get dessert every day at home. ... They have to absorb this, too."

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