With the budget cut in the Great Depression, an inmate is fed on 12 cents a day in 1932, six cents less than previous year. (A loaf of bread costs eight cents.) The lower commodity prices and contributions from the penitentiary farm allow Warden Steadman to maintain the food quality. He writes to inmates: “My hope is that I will be a better man for having known you and that you will be none the worse for knowing me.”
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