Starvation Time

Poor babies:

• The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.

  Georgia prisoners already didn't get lunch on the weekends, and the Department of Corrections recently eliminated the midday meal on Fridays, too. Ohio may drop weekend breakfasts and offer brunch instead. Other states are cutting back on milk and fresh fruit.

  Officials say prisoners are still getting enough calories, but family members and critics say the changes could make prisoners irritable and food a valuable commodity, increasing the possibility of violence.

Well it's a good thing that those nasty prisoners are all locked up where they can throw all the tantrums they want inside 20 foot walls of concrete and barbed wire. If bread and water were good enough for the Bastille, it should be good enough for American prisons. We think a prison population suffering from scurvy, rickets and assorted vitamin deficiencies would be a good thing in the long run.