The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
“It was Sunday afternoon, two days after Brittany Monet’s firing, and Bucklew was fixing his weekly spaghetti feast for his buddies. Within an hour, six inmates would join him at the same yellow Formica tables that Bucklew cleaned during the week for the guards. The inmates would devour plates of pasta covered with Bucklew’s special tomato sauce.
No one in the bureau liked to talk about it, but over the years it had become a custom at the Hot House for the inmate cooks to take over the kitchen f...or themselves on Sundays. There was no way for the bureau to feed 1,200 inmates three times a day during the week without the help of inmate cooks, and most of these men, like Bucklew, could have earned three times their regular $75 per month salaries by working in prison industries. They chose the lower-paying kitchen duty because they wanted to eat well, and on Sundays they did.
Technically, the kitchen was closed. Inmates had to make do on Sunday morning with a brunch of coffee, milk, and pastries, and a dinner of cold cuts and bread.MoreLess
No one in the bureau liked to talk about it, but over the years it had become a custom at the Hot House for the inmate cooks to take over the kitchen f...or themselves on Sundays. There was no way for the bureau to feed 1,200 inmates three times a day during the week without the help of inmate cooks, and most of these men, like Bucklew, could have earned three times their regular $75 per month salaries by working in prison industries. They chose the lower-paying kitchen duty because they wanted to eat well, and on Sundays they did.
Technically, the kitchen was closed. Inmates had to make do on Sunday morning with a brunch of coffee, milk, and pastries, and a dinner of cold cuts and bread.MoreLess
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