By Kellan Howell
The Washington Times
The Bureau of Prisons on Friday moved to put pork back on the menu at federal prisons nationwide after Sen. Chuck Grassley raised questions about the lack of transparency and financial mismanagement behind the original decision to remove the other white meat from prison cafeterias.
In a letter sent Thursday to the Bureau Director Charles Samuels Jr., Mr. Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, expressed concern over the “ham-handed” decision to remove economical pork products from prison menus after tax dollars were used to conduct a survey of inmates’ food preferences.
“Pork is largely a product of the United States that provides tremendous economic benefit to the country along with being an economical food,”Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, said in a statement. “For that reason alone, it doesn’t make sense to eliminate it from prison meals, but to spend taxpayer dollars surveying prisoners about what they did or didn’t like about the meals they were being served seems completely backwards.”
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