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When inmates act out, the loaf is served
By TOVIN LAPAN
Posted: 12/18/2010 01:30:45 AM PST

SANTA CRUZ -- On Christmas Day, the inmates at the County Jail will get a welcome respite from their regularly scheduled nutritious but mostly unexciting high school cafeteria-style meals -- glazed ham with sweet potatoes and ice cream for dessert.

If an inmate has been behaving poorly, however, while all his incarcerated compatriots dine on one of the few special meals of the year, he will instead be forced to feast on the loaf.

It is otherwise known as the disciplinary diet loaf, prison loaf and management loaf. When all else fails in disciplining an inmate, be it loss of visits, free time or other privileges, deputies turn to this bland log of meat and vegetables to get the disruptive inmate to follow the rules.

Full Story here:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_16890581



A meal's portion of 'the loaf' sits on a tray in the kitchen of the County Jail. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)

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Hey, whatever works, right?

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

But the Confinement Loaf that Zappa was worried about - I haven't got Ike Willis's explanation of it in front of me now, so I can't scan it, I can only paraphrase:-

it contained saltpeter amongst other things, and its objective was to impair testosterone production, to "make sure their Telefunken U47's stay nice and calm" - but, the trouble was, it was causing permanent damage - chemically castrating prisoners (i.e chemically castrating those prisoners who were only in the nick for tax evasion or something).

And the governor of the prison where it was first tried out chose to ignore this fact in his report, and carried on recommending it to other prisons.

I suppose you approve of that?!

Can I get better proof than an explanation from Ike Willis that you can't scan? (PS - the saltpeter thing is a myth, so I'm not exactly accepting what you're saying as the truth)

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

Try the lobotomy loaf

RECIPE
DISCIPLINARY DIET LOAF
2
ounces nonfat dry milk
4
ounces raw grated potato
4
ounces raw carrots, chopped or grated fine
1
ounces tomato juice or puree
4
ounces raw cabbage, chopped fine
7 ounces lean ground beef, turkey or re-hydrated, canned or frozen Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)
2
fluid ounces oil
1
ounces whole wheat flour
teaspoon salt
4 teaspoon raw onion, chopped
1 egg
6 ounces dry red beans, pre-cooked before baking (or 16 ounces canned or cooked red kidney beans)
4 teaspoon chili powder
Shape into a loaf and bake at 350-375 degrees for 50-70 minutes.
SOURCE: California Code of Regulations Title 15


I don't see saltpeter in there ... BUT... it was used on GI's in WWII and in ' Nam , from what I've read.


Lobotomy loaf ???

Never heard of that , but it does explain a few comments from certain ppl here

It's in an issue of Society Pages (the US version, which only ran to about 12 issues) that Ike talks about the dangerous confinement loaf - CNN was one of his sources of information.

Yep , convinced now