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Illinois inmates continue legal fight citing health effects of prison food

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published November 21, 2012.

In Illinois, current and former prisoners continue their three year long legal fight against the state for food they say sickened them. The lawsuit accuses  the Illinois department of corrections of cruel and unusual punishment  for using a cheap form of soy protein to save money on meat. Prisoners say their complaints of health problems have been ignored. FSRN's Jay Sapir reports.