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Patrol custody say they re being kept, quote, in a metal cage. the kids testified that there isn t enough food, that they re sleeping on mats on the floor and that officials have taken babies diapers, formula and even their pants. joining me no you from homestead, florida, nbc news correspondent cal perry. cal, you have been covering this all week and have seen these candidates start to come by one at a time. who have you seen today? what s the latest there? reporter: so mayor bill de blasio was the first one here in the morning, former senator beto o rourke was the most recent and in the middle we saw senator bernie sanders. look, they are all obviously very concerned about this issue, this is the issue that is now sort of mainstream in the american consciousness. important to remind our viewers the center behind me is a privately run facility, it is a for-profit facility with somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 children in it and that is why activists and attorneys and members of con ....
Cents to 18. i m not too happy with that. you know, we have a little inflation. we give them two meals a day. brunch. this is it. that s all you get until dinnertime. usually a bologna sandwich, an orange, donated cookies. and at night they get a hot meal. a lot of these guys won t talk up but i m going tell you what i think. the food here is garbage, bro. you don t eat it? no. how come? the only thing i ever eat is the fruit. the only reason i take the tray is so that i can talk to everybody in the run. because when they give you your food, the trap stays open until they pick it up. i don t eat it, though. we throw more of it away than we eat, honestly. the food that we get well, once you serve it you can t use it for anything else. do you have food in wyoming? we do. and we recognize it. no, but seriously. i got more people in jail than you have in your whole state. you ve got that right. ....
A caribbean restaurant in hernando county. i ve been in the food business since 1985. since most inmates complain about the food, we asked powers for a professional evaluation. it is bland. a lot of the food is bland, and i agree to somewhat it isn t enough food, but once you re here for a week or two weeks, you get used to it. people are eating used to being on the street and eating when they want and what they want. unfortunately, when you come here, that s not what you get to do. it s not enough to fill you, just enough to put something in your stomach to keep you going. there s chicken in here but the chicken is not real good chicken. very bad chicken. but anyway, whatever. it is what it is. i eat to survive. i think that the food tastes reasonably good. what we have done is try to create neutral food tastes so if the food is bland, at least they ....
I eat to survive. i think that the food tastes reasonably good. what we have done is try to create neutral food tastes so if the food is bland, at least they are not having something that they find objectionable. once you re here a little bit, you re like, you know what? it s really not that bad. a little salt would be nice, and pepper. but other than that, it s, you know, it is hard. you keep looking over your shoulder at the other chef here. how come? i work for him, so that s like the boss. so i ll make sure i don t say anything too bad. i don t want to offend him or say anything out of line. i m sure i ll have a little talk with him when we re done with this conversation. back at the limon correctional facility, we encounter perhaps the most unusual of all inmate meals. prepared for us by captain ....
Day. while most menus are designed to provide a basic level of nutrition, steven doad, the food service director at the hillsboro county jail in tampa, florida, has taken a more wholesome approach to inmate meals. we make up 11,000 meals a day and we have a 28-day cycle menu which has a variety for the inmates. and our last menu design we decided we were going to make this a heart healthy menu. that s the only jail in florida that i know of that does a heart healthy menu. the food has to have 2,650 calories per day. we have 33% or less fat. we have 3.5 grams of sodium per day or less. there are the 100% required amounts of vitamins and minerals to make a healthy lifestyle for anyone. most inmates are hired for kitchen jobs based on their behavior history and the trust they ve earned from staff. as opposed to any culinary experience. john powers met all of those qualifications, but he also just ....