Food Trays

Inmates are so tricky. I can't help but wonder sometimes what they would be able to accomplish if they used some or their artistic abilities and ingenuity on the street rather waste it on their addictions and gang lifestyles. When inmates have a goal in mind, they generally can accomplish almost anything. Unfortunately this talent is often used to start a gang fight or get their hands on some sort of drugs but every once in a while they definitely impress.
So that disgusting looking meal you see above is sitting on an example of the food trays that we use at the prison. Luckily for our inmates the meals generally are more appealing, but definitely not something to write home about. I'm sure most of you who think of mealtime at the prison imagine a bunch of inmates standing in line waiting to have their food slopped on the tray. Not so here! Here we load up the trays early and send them stacked on carts, one on top of the other about ten high, to the units to be passed out. Sometimes we get extra trays and here is where the point of this post starts.

So our building is on lockdown, meaning no inmates are allowed to move out of their cells for any reason except for emergencies. Just read some recent KSL articles about the prison and you can figure out some of the reasons why the prison gets put on lockdown. Well I've heard before that somehow inmates are capable of working together to get fully loaded trays off of the tables in the section while they're locked in their cells. I figured a lockdown is the perfect opportunity. We had four extra trays in the building so I took them down to my favorite section as of right now, dropped them on the table and said, "I hear you guys can get full trays off of tables without spilling them. Here you go." An hour and a half later I came back to the section and saw this note.


Well now isn't that impressive? Not only had they gotten the food off of the trays to eat, but they had also stacked them back on the table and written me a thank you note. How sweet. I guess that answers my question. I now know that inmates can get food to eat without spilling it even when they are stuck in their cells.