Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-08-22 | Page 8 | Sterner Rationing Urged in Prisons of Britain

Sterner Rationing Urged In Prisons of Britain LONDON. Convicts vho enjoy luxuries beyond the reach of the ordinary civilian may have a few meatless days if the suggestion of a prison officer, writing in the current cur-rent issue of the Prison Officers' magazine, is put into effect. "Surely it would not hurt these fellows any more than it does us," he writes, "and remember, too, that one prisoner gets as much cheese in one week as I am able to get-eight get-eight ounces for four of us in a fortnight. fort-night. "In our prison of a daily average population of 120, I have seen seven cheeses, of 70 pounds in weight, go during one week. "Meat also is a problem to us and all outside, but the meat that goes into our institution does not seem to indicate that there is any scarcity at all."