The Food in Prisons Policy Framework, in force since February, requires kitchens to consider prisoners’ ethical beliefs alongside religious and cultural needs, a change vegan campaigners have welcomed.
A US sheriff has defended serving isolated prisoners the same meal three times a day, while Irish inspectors praised photographs of countryside fixed to Cork Prison's fences.
Three years after poor results across the board, the North East prison earned a good grade for respect. Inspectors still found too little constructive activity, inadequate food and overcrowded cells.
