News & Politics - US jail could have its own Macca's

-Kelly- · 09-04-2006, 08:08 PM

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US jail could have its own Macca's

Tuesday Sep 5 09:36 AEST

AP - The McDonald's Hamburglar could wind up in a New York city jail.

The Department of Correction is serving up a plan to put a fast-food restaurant in New York City's Rikers Island jail system, giving thousands of workers there greater meal options. Currently, the jail guards eat the same food as the crims.

A Department of Correction classified ad in a restaurant industry publication says there is a demand for meal alternatives and for food at the beginnings and ends of guards' shifts. It seeks expressions of interest from companies that would like to operate a fast-food joint in the joint.

"They certainly have a captive audience," Dean Poll, who operates a city concession in Central Park, quipped to the New York Post.

About 9,000 municipal employees a day pass by the spot where the restaurant would be if the plan cuts the mustard; more than 1,000 people pass through a visitors' centre five days a week.

There was no word on whether the jail guards, who get one free meal a day, would have to pay for the fast food or how many cigarettes it might cost them. The inmates' menu would be confined to what it's always been.

Jail should be Jail

Lain · 09-04-2006, 08:42 PM

What the

??? Great. All I need is a crowbar, a 45 caliber and I'll defenintly be hauled to the "big house"!

SMG_fan · 09-04-2006, 10:18 PM

But the Mcdonalds isn't for the prisoners, it would be for the guards who work there. I don't think it would be that bad to give the workers that option.

Belinda

Lain · 09-04-2006, 11:45 PM

Oh

Well, or at least put a McDonalds nearby instead of inside of a jail. I thought inmates were gonna get a McD's too.

-Kelly- · 09-05-2006, 12:42 AM

^ Same here

SMG_fan · 09-05-2006, 01:23 AM

I thought that when I first read the title, there's no way something like that should happen. But the poor quards having to eat the same food as the prisoners, I've heard that the food is quite bad.

Belinda

quaist · 09-05-2006, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by angel_boogiepop (View Post)

Oh

Well, or at least put a McDonalds nearby instead of inside of a jail. I thought inmates were gonna get a McD's too.

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The Department of Correction is serving up a plan to put a fast-food restaurant in New York City's Rikers Island jail system, giving thousands of workers there greater meal options.

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The inmates' menu would be confined to what it's always been.


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