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‘Disciplinary loaf’ is off the menu at NY prisons

The unsavory version of meatloaf comes in various recipes

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By Joseph Spector
Democrat & Chronicle

NEW YORK — New York will stop serving to its prisoners in solitary confinement what’s known as “The Loaf”: A mixture of foods packed into a meatloaf-like brick and served to prisoners who are being punished.

The unsavory version of meatloaf comes in various recipes, but the New York blend of shredded carrots and unskinned potatoes, the Times described, that’s served with water and cabbage.

The New York Civil Liberties Union said the reforms to solitary confinement “provides for basic human needs for people.”

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