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Last updated: November 20, 2009 2:20 p.m.

Prison cuts out lunch 3 days a week

Associated Press

PLAINFIELD – An Indiana prison no longer serves lunch to inmates on Fridays and weekends in what it says is an efficiency move designed to free up more time for classes and recreation.

The Plainfield Correctional Facility west of Indianapolis went the reduced meal schedule last month, and spokesman Kevin Mulroony said it hasn’t received many complaints.

He said two square meals a day provide 2,500 calories, the same as three meals.

But some lawmakers and a civil libertarian are concerned.

Republican Mike Delph of Carmel chairs the state Senate’s corrections subcommittee. He said denying food or cutting back on meals to prisoners is beneath the dignity of the state of Indiana.

Elizabeth Alexander of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project said eliminating lunches created a long gap between meals.

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