Jail Kitchen.

FUN FACT: Did you know a group of minimum-security inmates at the South Placer Jail is responsible for cooked meals distributed around the community, and in both jails?
It’s another program at SPJ intended to teach inmates a skill to help them get a job when they’re released from custody.

The food and ingredients are provided by Summit Food Service, whose employees help to oversee inmates in the kitchen along with correctional officers.
Inmates are responsible for cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner, and for every eight days worked, they get one day shaved off their sentence.
Inmate Hector Ortega, one of the head chefs in the kitchen, is sharing his story of how working in the kitchen is helping him get out a month early, and what his plans are when he’s released.

Watch his story here: