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The main breakfast course for inmates in Maricopa County jails on the weekends is a measly serving of bread, peanut butter, jelly, cookies, a piece of fruit, along with a small carton of milk. They re then served the exact same thing for dinner minus the milk. For the past six-to-eight months, the Maricopa County Sheriff s Office, which manages the county s five jails, has provided so-called sack lunches to inmates twice a day on Saturdays and Sundays, according to Calbert Gillett, an MCSO spokesperson. The basic components in the sack lunches are one 4oz roll, peanut butter, jelly, cookies and fresh fruit. The sack lunch that is served for breakfast also comes with a 8oz carton of milk. ....
The records come from a running tally of critical incidents inside county jails dubbed Managing For Results, which correctional staff supervisors update after every shift. They were leaked to Phoenix New Times by an MCSO staffer who was concerned about the increase in suicide attempts. The staffer declined to be named out of fear of retribution. When reached for comment, MCSO spokesperson Norma Gutierrez-Deorta disputed the numbers in the records. In an email, she claimed that there were only two suicides and two attempted suicides in 2021. Similarly, she wrote that there were four suicide attempts and two suicides in 2020. After being presented with the leaked records, Gutierrez-Deorta wrote that she had to do some research on the issue. When contacted again for comment, she wrote, it’s going to take some time to go through our records. ....