COLLINS, Miss. (AP) - A South Dakota-based company has been chosen to provide daily meals to inmates at a Mississippi jail. WDAM-TV reports Covington .
S.D. company to provide inmate meals at Mississippi jail
Associated Press 5/12/2021
COLLINS, Miss. (AP) A South Dakota-based company has been chosen to provide daily meals to inmates at a Mississippi jail.
Covington County supervisors voted this week to award a contract to Summit Jail Food Service of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to handle food service at the county jail, WDAM-TV reported.
Only two companies bid to provide meal service at the jail, and Sheriff Darrell Perkins said the offer from Summit Jail Food Service was the lowest of the two.
The company will prepare and serve three meals a day at the new kitchen facility at the Covington County Law Enforcement Complex. Construction of that kitchen started in 2019 and was completed in early 2020. The cost of the facility was nearly $500,000.
2 companies submit bids to run new Covington Jail kitchen
2 companies submit bids to run new Covington Jail kitchen By Charles Herrington | May 7, 2021 at 12:35 PM CDT - Updated May 7 at 7:18 PM
COVINGTON COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Two companies have submitted bids to operate the new jail kitchen at the Covington County Law Enforcement Complex.
Covington County Supervisors opened bids Friday from Tiger Correctional Services of Jonesboro, Ark., and Summit Jail Food Service from Sioux Falls, S.D.
Supervisors and Sheriff Darrell Perkins are considering the offers and Perkins hopes a final decision can be made early next week.
“We’re hoping June first, someone can start preparing meals in the kitchen,” said Perkins. “They have to apply for a food service permit, they also have to have a dietician on staff, hire some employees, do background, you know, we may be pushed over a little bit past the June one, possibly into July, but we’re in the advanced stage now of getting