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Champaign County inmates eat pretty well on $4 a day

By Paul Wood
Sunday January 13, 2008

Vanda Bidwell

Attorney Steve Beckett samples a typical lunch for an inmate at the Champaign County satellite jail in Urbana. Beckett shelled out $1.50 for the cheeseburger, slaw, potatoes and applesauce.

URBANA – There's a place in Urbana that can teach you how to live on $4 worth of food a day.

It's called the Champaign County Jail.

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