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Leslie Soble: Eating Behind Bars

Dec 10, 2025
31 mins

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Episode Description

Impact/Justice's Leslie Soble, an internationally recognized voice on the carceral eating experience, talks to Kate and Mark about what eating in prison is really like. The three discuss food as an active form of punishment, the deep connection between the critical problems of hunger and food waste, creative things incarcerated people do to stay nourished, and the good work that select organizations are doing to bring better food to prisons.


Read an excerpt from Leslie's book, Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison, on The Bittman Project: https://bittmanproject.com/eating-behind-bars/


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