Letter to Congress RE: Federal Bureau of Prisons Food Service & Commissary Operations Solicitation

A report released this month by the Carceral Nutrition Project and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, “Private Food, Public Harm​,” documents the track record of privatized prison food contractors like Aramark in state and local corrections systems. Our findings are concerning. Aramark has been sued in over 500 lawsuits challenging carceral food service. A thorough literature review and key informant interviews indicate nutritional shortcomings, widespread food safety concerns, security lapses, and a pattern of cost-cutting that falls hardest on the roughly 405,000 people Aramark feeds daily in prisons and jails across 17 states. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a business model that prioritizes profit over the people in its care.

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