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Food As Punishment: Giving U.S. Inmates 'The Loaf' Persists

Lisa Brown for NPR

In many prisons and jails across the U.S., punishment can come in the form of a bland, brownish lump. Known as nutraloaf, or simply "the loaf," it's fed day afte…

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