April 22, 2011
Dear Mom,
I really wish this was a joyful letter but it isn't. Please sit as this may be tough for you to hear. As you know, the food here is quite a lot worse than awful. Until today, I've been able to attribute this to one thing or another and not attribute all the responsibility to the kitchen. Today, there were not enough trays for everyone to get served breakfast, so I went without. Lunch was horrible but I forced it down because of hunger. Supper was late, cold, spoiled, and had worms in it! On top of that, we weren't given bread because of it being a Jewish holiday. Fine, if you are a devout Jew, but I'm not.
I'm doing all I can to make it out of here without looking like a concentration-camp survivor, but I need your help. Please contact the Department of Corrections website and get in touch with the office of the regional supervisor for the area this prison is in. Please call them also and complain about the alleged food we get, and don't get but are supposed to get. The more phone calls or contacts they get, the quicker something will get done, so please do this for me. I've only gone this long with no food at Lake C.I. (Egypt). The menu here is only suggested, apparently. We often have to draw on our own meager resources to complete a meal, and some inmates, like my celly, don't have any resources. It is breaking me down fast, the way we are fed here. This treatment does not inspire peaceful coexistence. They wonder why I'm scowling.
Please do this for me. Thank you very much.
James
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