By C1 Staff
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – An inmate’s complaint that Michigan’s private food contractor, Aramark Correctional Services, skimps on prisoner’s meals has fallen on deaf ears.
MLive reports that U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar dismissed Johnny Dar Eagle’s lawsuit that Aramark was using “sneaky ways” to get around an obligation to provide all items of an approved menu.
Edgar said that Eagle’s complaints could only arguably implicate that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated, but that amendment addresses only depravation of needed food, medical care or sanitation – not every unpleasant situation during a prison stay.
Eagle complained that Aramark failed to put lettuce in the “bean salad with lettuce and onions,” and served mostly water with vegetables because Aramark used a ladle, rather than a slotted spoon, for serving.
He also didn’t like the diet jelly served with scrambled eggs and toast on Tuesdays and Sundays.
Edgar found no good-faith basis for appeal, which means Eagle would have to pay a $505 filing fee to appeal the decision.
Edgar earlier dismissed a similar lawsuit against Aramark by another inmate.
Eagle is serving 16 to 30 years on multiple charges of sexual assault, child sexually abusive activity and using a computer to commit a crime.