Thread by @JimmyJenkins

Going through Arizona Department of Corrections food inspections - Kitchens with dead cockroaches and mice droppings get a "Satisfactory" rating - these would be critical violations in any commercial food service facility

Walk-in coolers don't work. Dishwashers don't work. Civilian staff not wearing gloves. Roaches in the kitchen. Warm milk. Warm lunch meat. Rating? "Satisfactory"

"Pest infestation still present in main kitchen, at serving lines, beverage stations, and dish room."

"Hot Holding Cabinets out of service for being infested with cockroaches"

Here's a kitchen that has "no working hand sinks in inmate or staff restroom" - these men are preparing food for all the other incarcerated people - let's not forget this is during a pandemic

Can't prove the deli meat is spoiled if there's no thermometers in the coolers amirite?

Honest to god it's like there's no soap in any of the kitchens in Arizona state prisons

Gosh that's weird - when incarcerated people told me they were constantly forced to serve fellow prisoners expired food, Trinity and DOC told me they were lying - but these inspection documents seem to tell a different story🤔kjzz.org/content/163650….

"It was noted by 2 DOC staff present at inspection that inappropriate taste testing of food had been performed by an employee using fingers instead of utensils."

Rating: "Satisfactory"

Another prison kitchen - no soap, not hot water, no water pressure, dishwasher not working

Some very sage food service advice from the Arizona Department of Health Services: "Recommend to fix soap dispenser . . . so employees can wash hands."

NO HAND SOAP - NO TOILET PAPER

The same inspector noted the presence of roaches in a kitchen at the Lewis prison twice a month - every month - for all of 2020 - and apparently nothing was done. By September they wrote "Roaches starting to get bad"

Perryville women's prison - "Rodent Issue"

Rating: "Satisfactory"

Inside a kitchen at the Arizona women's prison we find the high quality infrastructure we've come to expect from the Department of Corrections:

"A lot of jimmy rig, such as pipes being held up by plastic trash bags."

"Washing pans in mop sink - NO!!!"

Kitchen staff at Perryville had to be RETRAINED on how to remove bird feathers from the ceiling vents - because the first training didn't take apparently

Yikes - kitchen "closed due to sewer backflow!"

The Arizona Department of Corrections needed larger rat traps in the kitchens at the Perryville women's prison, because the smaller traps "were ineffective for the bigger rats"

I've got a few thousand additional pages of records to go through from 5 more prisons - I'll continue this thread tomorrow

Learning more about the integrity of these inspections the Department of Corrections performs on its own facilities - check out the note from the DOC inspector:

"Waiting outside for 10 mins to get into the kitchen. Inmates were cleaning."

ASPC-Winslow: Blood all over the floor of the walk-in . . . also not enough sporks

"Kitchen extremely dirty"

"Fly's very bad"

You love to see it #FOIA

Overall these inspection reports have been a resounding condemnation by DOC of the way Trinity manages the state prison kitchens: "Food all over floor" "Trinity allowing inmates to stand around tasting food"

"BEANS SPILLED AND BLOOD NEED TO BE CLEANED UP(repeat issue)"

"Product without dates in the cooler or freezer (a lot of product)"

"Restroom was so dirty to the point where it should have been closed for no use at all (this is an ongoing issue)"

Rating: Satisfactory

Almost every prison kitchen I've reviewed has been cited repeatedly for having no soap or paper towels in the bathrooms for the workers - this is an inspection of ASPC-Yuma/LaPaz Unit performed by @AZDHS - Rating - "Satisfactory"

ASPC-Yuma/Dakota Unit: "Infestation of roaches throughout the kitchen"