Does Hui’an Meishan Detention Center have to pay food fees for three meals a day?

Legal analysis: There is no need to pay for food, and prisoners eat for free.

Legal basis: "Regulations on the Scope of Expenditures and Management Measures for Detention Centers"

Article 5 The scope of expenditures for detention centers is: prisoner support, official expenses, equipment purchase fees, equipment Consumption charges, repair charges and other charges.

Article 6: Prisoner rations

(1) Food expenses: including grain, vegetables, cooking oil, meat, eggs, fish, soy products and condiments, etc.

(2) Clothing and quilt fees: used to purchase clothing, bedding, sheets, shoes, socks, etc. for roving prisoners, prisoners with financial difficulties, and prisoners serving sentences in detention centers.

(3) Medical expenses: medical expenses, medicine expenses, physical examination expenses for prisoners’ medical treatment and hospitalization, as well as the expenses for medicines and disposable (low-value consumables) medical equipment purchased by the detention center infirmary.

(4) Public expenses: toilet paper, sanitary napkins, disinfectant, hairdressing tools, towels, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, brooms, mops and other daily sanitary necessities, coal and fuel expenses in the canteen, etc. Temporary wages for cooks.