so a lot of jails (local police station jails, the drunk tanks and the like, where people are kept before being sentenced to prison or taken to a larger jail) don’t have an on-site kitchen or a way of preparing food, and thankfully US law requires cops to not ignore people who mention being hungry. they need to pick you up something somewhere of you even allude to having not eaten recently. the downside of this is that the charleston church shooter gets a happy meal, but most of the time the point of the law is to make sure cops dont starve the usually poor and POC people they shove in the back of the car.
so a lot of jails (local police station jails, the drunk tanks and the like, where people are kept before being sentenced to prison or taken to a larger jail) don’t have an on-site kitchen or a way of preparing food, and thankfully US law requires cops to not ignore people who mention being hungry. they need to pick you up something somewhere of you even allude to having not eaten recently. the downside of this is that the charleston church shooter gets a happy meal, but most of the time the point of the law is to make sure cops dont starve the usually poor and POC people they shove in the back of the car.