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Right, let's talk about prison food.

Yeah, let's.

So prison food, saying prison food is sort of like a joke, like an airplane meal that someone might use casually to represent really bad food.

I think prisoners would literally kill for an airplane food meal.

Yeah, but there are more than two million people incarcerated in the United States, and that's a lot of people to feed.

And we're not feeding them very well.

And there are groups out there that advocates for prisoners who are on the case and have been for a while trying to get better food to prisoners.

And this woman, Loreta Reffa, who works for, she's a researcher for prison voice Washington.

She makes a good point.

She's saying, listen, we're not saying prisoners don't want filet mignon.

They don't want luxury foods.

They just want food that's food, real food.

Real food and that also isn't nutritionally deficient.

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