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BY THERESA WALKER / STAFF WRITER
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Published: July 18, 2014 Updated: 9:02 p.m.
Lettuce is one thing, lunch meat another.
Since J uly 1, deli meat that used to be discarded at Theo Lacy Facility, a minimumsecurity jail in Orange, began making its way to dining tables at the Salvation Army Adult
Rehabilitation Center in Anaheim and a retirement home in Santa Ana.
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The meat isn’t the stereotypical jail baloney. Donations from the jail in Orange include
processed turkey, ham and roast beef.
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“When we went to pick up the food and saw 10 trays of deli meat, I was like, ‘Oh my God, is
it Christmas?’” said Diana Lara of Food Finders, a food-recovery organization
coordinating the effort.
Prepared food that ends up not being served to inmates – such as scrambled eggs, rice,
chili, spaghetti sauce and the occasional sausage patty – also is salvaged through the
collaboration between the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Waste Not OC
public-private coalition, which includes Food Finders.
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Meals must be prepared for the entire jail population at Theo Lacy, whether all the
inmates end up eating or not. More than 3,000 inmates are offered two hot meals and one
sack lunch a day. In addition, sack lunches are prepared for inmates from all county jails
who are in court and eating at the courthouse.
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On Wednesday, Salvation Army kitchen supervisor J onathan Hubbard picked up 19 trays,
each containing about 20 pounds of sliced meat.
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“If you had come here in J une, that would have been in our trash cans,” said Deputy J im
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Hamill, who, with Deputy Bill Wagner, makes up the jail’s two-man sustainability unit. The
pair oversee the jail’s recycling efforts.
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Food waste has been reduced by getting better estimates on how much to prepare in a
given day, Hamill said. But as much as 500 pounds a day, three days a week, is routed to
the rehab center and the rest home.
Hamill, who in college majored in environmental science, said the food donation effort
may be expanded to the James A. Musick jail in Irvine and the Central Jail Complex in
Santa Ana.
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That’s good news to Nigel Shelton, a Musick inmate.
Shelton, who is working in food preparation during his nine-week sentence for drug
possession and probation violation, wrote a letter to his father a few weeks ago
expressing concern about food going to waste at Musick after reading a Register story on
hunger and food distribution in Orange County.
When told about the food-reclamation project at Theo Lacy, and that it might expanded
to Musick, Shelton told his father:
“A lot of people that are less fortunate can be helped through this process.”
Contact the writer: twalker@ocregister.com
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