Published: January 10, 2007 12:11 am            

No more doughnuts for inmates

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Doughnuts will no longer be served to Franklin County jail inmates.

County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy put a $55,000 annual contract for the doughnuts on hold last month over questions about their nutritional value and trans-fat content.

“It was not a frequent food item to begin with,” said Chief Deputy Sheriff Mark Barrett, the jail administrator.

Prisoners at the county’s two correctional centers were served doughnuts every few weeks on a menu developed by a dietitian under contract with the county.

Sheriff’s officials have now dropped a request asking commissioners to approve a contract that would have supplied glazed and jelly doughnuts, as well as crullers, at $4 a dozen.

        

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