Let them eat apples

This goes down as the biggest news in penal reform since the outlawing of the thumbscrew!

According to the Associated Press, the Franklin County Jail will no longer be injuring the health of inmates by serving them doughnuts.

According to the report: "County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy put a $55,000 annual contract for the doughnuts on hold last month over questions about their nutritional value and trans-fat content." That prompted the Franklin County Sheriff's office to drop its request for its annual contract with Jolly Pirate Enterprises, which supplied the inmates with glazed, jelly and crullers.

Now, I don't think Jolly Pirate Enterprises is the Halliburton of the prison pastry world or anything, but at a reported $4 per dozen, that means the Franklin County prisoners were being fed 13,750 dozen artery-cloggers per year -- a terrible dietary supplement for a population with such a sedentary lifestyle.

I'm with Kilroy on this and think her example should be followed in jails everywhere. No harm will come from imposing a healthier diet on prisoners.