thing inside a prison is feeding the inmates. has anybody told you that yet? no. you don t feed the inmates, inmates get real upset. they don t pay us enough for this. making blueberry cakes. making oatmeal for the whole institution. we got spaghetti, meat sauce, lima beans. one of the interesting things about lockup is the subject of prison food. inmates are not shy telling you what they think about it. whether they love it or hate it and generally they do hate it, they re eager to tell you about it. how s the food? how s the food? the food is wonderful. you re always starving from meal to meal. i ve gained 15 to 20 pounds since i ve been in. i ve only been in four months. what in the world is this? i have no idea. five-star restaurant. i think i ll stick with the potatoes. everybody complains. everywhere you go, somebody s going to complain.
i don t think that i did the best job that i could do. i think they treated him unfairly, to be honest about it. they don t want to address the problem that he still has issues with trying to adjust to freedom. coming up what in the world is this? i have no idea. it s key to survival, but prison food has plenty of critics. how s the food? terrible. everybody complains, you know, everywhere you go they complain. my question is where is all the beef at?
making oatmeal for the whole institution. what s for lunch today? we ve got spaghetti, meat sauce, lima beans. one of the interesting things about lockup is the subject of prison food. inmates are not shy telling you what they think about it. whether they love it or hate it and generally they do hate it, they re eager to tell you about it. how s the food? how s the food? the food is wonderful. you re always starving from meal to meal. i ve gained 15 to 20 pounds since i ve been in. i ve only been in four months. what in the world is this? i have no idea. five-star restaurant. i think i ll stick with the potatoes. everybody complains. everywhere you go, somebody s going to complain. if you want, you could sit down and join us and you ll know for yourself.
for some, prison food is the best they ve had in years. we were at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee when jason rogers arrived to begin a 24-year sentence for aggravated robbery. he had spent the last three years in county jail. i don t know. maybe i m a little numb in my head, but i ll be all right. look right here at the camera. though rogers had never been to prison before, he told us there was one thing he was looking forward to. people told me that you eat better in the penitentiary, you eat better than you do in the county jail. i remember when i was getting the shot of jason sitting down and finally eating, it was like a kid at a picnic with all the best food, all the best food imaginable, like a kid in the candy store. he was just putting it in his mouth, having a great time. what did you have? hotdogs and cake. okay. you look pretty happy. well, i haven t had cake in
we wish we did know. we don t think there was any type of diagram given to em this. that s certainly never come out. joyce mitchell provided them with hacksaw blades with cloth over them to cut through that steam pipe and cut through the cell walls. but the only thing i can think of is they had a sense of direction. they worked in a tailor shop. maybe they were able to figure it out through a sense of direction. how the buildings all connected, how the where the yard was and how to work their way out to the street. and i promise i ll let you go even though i have a thousand questions for you. the opening in the steam pipe, did i read that one of these guys had to lose like 50 pounds to be able to fit and shimmy? yeah. richard matt. we ve seen the pictures of him. he was not a small guy. i don t know if he stopped eating the prison food or david sweat put him on a strict diet,