Incarcerated individuals being punished; shouldn't have country club conditions

This is in response to the Feb. 21 story “Holding out for a hot breakfast” in the Cheney Free Press.

Inmates and Gov. Jay Inslee don’t seem to get it. Incarcerated individuals are being punished, not sent to an all-expenses paid country club. They shouldn’t eat any better than the minimum wage workers of America and they definitely shouldn’t be catered to.

I think what the state has provided is better than most grade school kids get who eat at home before school. I know my high school sons decided sleeping an extra 20 minutes was more important than a hot breakfast, so they lived on things the...