By Ruth Ingram
ClarionLedger.com
HINDS COUNTY, — Hinds County inmates typically get sausage, grits, eggs and juice for breakfast and a meat and two veggies, plus a roll, for lunch and dinner.
They’ll still get that fare when Hinds County next month privatizes its jail food service, but at an annual savings to the county of at least $100,000 at the three jail facilities and another $100,000 at the Henley-Young Juvenile Detention Center.
Valley Foods, and not county-hired cooks, will provide supplies and prepare food at the Adult Detention Center in Raymond, the County Penal Farm in Raymond and the Jackson jail facility, along with the juvenile center in south Jackson that usually houses about 50 teens.
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