The jailer spoke about this on HLN tonight. I guess you can google it if you are so inclined. Inmates are woken very early, can take food split from the breakfast meal (my guess would be arhat breakfast is a 1300 calorie meal) to eat during lunch. The jailer also stated that they can sleep in the holding cell once they arrive at the courthouse. I don't suppose that the jail is interested in ferrying inmates several times a day. Imagine the injustice of having to deal with the jail's schedule. You are incarcerated, accept that the state shouldn't pay for personal taxi service and the security complexities or late arrivals that could result in trying to accommodate several schedules. I completely agree with this policy.
I have been a jailer. For the MOST PART, inmates have nothing better to do, and there is potential gain for trying to manipulate the system in every way possible. When I allowed inmates to take an apple to their cells, the next thing I found was a crude fermentation attempt to make some hooch. All day, everyday, nothing but manipulation. Being a jailer is like attending an in-house babysitting gig for a ton of 5 year olds. Whine's, groans and moans. And working the psych ward was sometimes less stressful. If there's a small hole in the system, it WILL be exploited. They talk, organize, assist each other in methods that work, and contrive. We once had a rash of female inmates going to the hospital in near comatose conditions and couldn't figure out why. Turns out, they were scratching the walls of theirinterior female parts with their fingernails. They would then infect it with their own feces. This would cause severe infection and then a 2 week stay in the general population hospital, handcuffed to the bed and with a private guard. This was an attempt to speed up their perception of jail time, and to game the system. Sick.
So no, I think the feeding schedule is fine. Understand the dynamic and mindset of a manipulating inmate.
