Adding Pounds For Good Behavior

The institutional-food giant Aramark’s iCare program — which allows people to send care packages of meats and sweets to their pals who are incarcerated at Aramark-served facilities, while also allowing correctional departments to rake in the revenue — gets the Wall Street Journal treatment today, complete with quotes from weight-worried inmates (one man whose daughter regularly sends him chocolate has gained 10 lbs. while in jail) and irritated Nutraloaf devotees at other jails. It would seem that there’s an odd class element introduced by these pricey packages as well, given that the junk food is actually less junky than the prisons’ normal offerings: “Mr. Yonts said hundreds of inmates and guards have complained to him about Aramark’s food, citing spoiled milk and meals contaminated with mouse droppings.”