Rattling the Bars: Prison food is much worse than you think
\u201cPrison food in the United States is a public health and human rights crisis,\u201d the Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project states on their website. \u201cBy weaponizing the experience of eating, the state transforms one of our most basic needs into an everyday form of violence. The short- and long-term effects of poor food conditions on incarcerated individuals' health also constitutes a form of \u2018premature death\u2019\u2014oftentimes damaging a person\u2019s physical and mental health and well-being for the rest of their life.\u201d In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa, who spent nearly 50 years eating prison food himself, speaks with Kanav Kathuria, co-founder of The Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project\ufeff, about the institutionalized cruelty of the system that keeps incarcerated people malnourished and fed barely enough to stay alive.
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/i-wouldnt-even-feed-this-to-my-dog-the-inhumane-reality-of-prison-food
Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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