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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Yesterday I learned at the, at the price that the prison…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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And the food in that prison was really bad. Listen. Yeah. What do you say? Airplane food and hospital food, huh? Yeah. The worst in the world. Yesterday I learned at the, at the price that the prison, the federal prison system pays for food for prisoners is about 60 cents a day. And what can you buy with 60 cents? Candy, sugar. Candy, sugar and anything with a long shelf life. And that's what they said to us. Some donuts too. (09:07–09:19)

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Asserts that the federal prison system pays about 60 cents a day for food per prisoner.

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