City of St Louis Metropolitan Police Department
City of Saint Louis Missouri
Information
on
Prisoner Processing
Lodging
and
Dining
circa 1972
City of Saint Louis Missouri
The answer to all questions will be answered within limits of accuracy .
For lodging there is 35 cells in the men's section,
including the drunk tank and three military cells .
Most cells hold up to eight prisoners, but any prisoner can be isolated .
Prisoners are separated according to the type of crime for which they have been arrested .
The 30 cells in the women's section are for single occupancy.
Six cells are reserved for juveniles .
For the question of what's to eat, the answer is;
for drinks, black coffee is served with all meals ,
for breakfast in the morning is two glazed doughnuts,
for lunch, two sandwiches made of the finest bologna served on fine white sliced bread, with no complements
and
for dinner a hot meal can be select from the menu below which never varies .
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