Prince George's County Council - Reference No. CR-006-2024

• Reference No.: CR-006-2024
• Draft No.: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• Meeting Body: County Council
• Meeting Date: 10/29/2024
• Introduced Date: 2/13/2024
• Effective date: 10/29/2024
• Title: A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE HEALTHY FOOD IN PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES TASK FORCE for the purpose of creating a task force that will recommend to the County Council, sitting as the Board of Health, nutritional, food safety, and other standards suitable for the correctional facility meal program that support the health, well-being, and religious and cultural identities of detained individuals and incarcerated individuals, align with the GFPP (Center for Good Food Purchasing’s Good Food Purchasing Program) core values, meet or exceed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and consider the daily caloric and serving size needs of the populations served.
• Proposers/Sponsors: Krystal Oriadha, Wala Blegay, Ingrid S. Watson, Eric C. Olson, Jolene Ivey, Edward P. Burroughs, Calvin S. Hawkins, Thomas E. Dernoga, Mel Franklin
• Contact: Leroy D. Maddox Jr., Legislative Attorney

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/29/2024	2	County Council	new draft substituted	Pass
10/29/2024	2	County Council	adopted	Pass
10/17/2024	1	Health, Human Services and Public Safety Committee
3/21/2024	1	Health, Human Services and Public Safety Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
2/13/2024	1	County Council	introduced and referred

Title

A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE HEALTHY FOOD IN PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES TASK FORCE for the purpose of creating a task force that will recommend to the County Council, sitting as the Board of Health, nutritional, food safety, and other standards suitable for the correctional facility meal program that support the health, well-being, and religious and cultural identities of detained individuals and incarcerated individuals, align with the GFPP (Center for Good Food Purchasing’s Good Food Purchasing Program) core values, meet or exceed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and consider the daily caloric and serving size needs of the populations served.

Background

The purpose of the legislation is to establish a task force to provide recommendations on nutritional and other standards for incarcerated individuals in the Prince George' County Correctional Facility to the County Council, sitting as the Board of Health, in response to concerns about nutritional disparities for incarcerated individuals in the Prince George's County Correctional Facility. In the event that the Board of Health concurs with the task force recommendations, it is anticipated that the County Council can then forward these recommendations to the Maryland Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Maryland Commission for Correctional Standards for consideration in their establishment of correctional standards pursuant to Section 8-103 of the Correctional Services Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.