AB 77

Current law requires a sheriff or other keeper of a jail to provide three meals

per day to inmates. Current law does not specify how many meals per day the

Department of Corrections must provide for prison inmates, but specifies that

inmates must be treated humanely.

This bill allows, at his or her discretion, a sheriff or other keeper of a jail to

provide two meals per day to jail inmates, unless a physician notifies the sheriff or

keeper that an inmate has a medical need for more than two meals per day. Under

the bill, a warden or prison superintendent may not serve more than two meals per

day to prison inmates unless a physician notifies the warden or superintendent that

an inmate has a medical need for more than two meals per day.