What happened to three hots and a cot?

It turns out that there may only be two hot meals or less food on some days a href=”http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090605/D98KCH0G0.html”in prison due to cutbacks:/abr /br /blockquoteThe recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.br /br /Georgia prisoners already didn’t get lunch on the weekends, and the Department of Corrections recently eliminated the midday meal on Fridays, too. Ohio may drop weekend breakfasts and offer brunch instead. Other states are cutting back on milk and fresh fruit.br /br /Officials say prisoners are still getting enough calories, but family members and critics say the changes could make prisoners irritable and food a valuable commodity, increasing the possibility of violence….br /br /Other states have kept three meals but are scaling back menus. Earlier this month, Alabama reduced the milk and fresh fruit it serves to save $700,000. Alabama inmates now receive an apple or an orange once a week, down from twice a week. Milk has been reduced from seven servings per week to three. Tennessee has also cut back on milk portions for men – from two servings a day to one – to save $600,000.br /br /Gordon Crews, a professor at Marshall University in West Virginia, wrote a book looking at correctional violence and said historically there have been links between food and problems behind bars. He pointed to a February riot at the Reeves County Detention Center in Texas caused in part by poor food quality.br /br /”A lot of prisoners will see something like that as some kind of retribution against them or some kind of mistreatment,” Crews said. “It’ll be something that the correctional staff will pay the price for … another reason (for inmates) to argue and fight back.”/blockquotebr /br /I have seen nursing homes where people started becoming angry and demoralized when the food quality went down, what will it do to prisoners? On the other hand, they are well… prisoners and states are cutting back in many other areas. What do you think? Should states cut back on food for prisoners?