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Are you someone who has experienced food insecurity? What has that looked like for you or in your community?

West Virginia Prison Food Survey

Voices of Hunger: Experience with Food in State Correctional Facilities

Purpose and Privacy: This survey gathers information about the quality, quantity, safety, health effects, and overall experience of food served in West Virginia correctional facilities. Participation is voluntary. Do not include your name, inmate number, or other identifying information. You may skip any question. Responses may be combined and used for research, public education, and advocacy.

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Defining the Right to Food

“[Right to food is] rights to healthy food. It is access to good, fresh produce and good meats. That’s not the case in some of these poor, small towns that only have, like, a Dollar General. The right to food is access to good food, not just food. Good food.”

-Anonymous, Wheeling, WV

“I believe that everyone should have the right to get food when they need it.”

- Heather M., Clarksburg, WV

The Voices of Hunger team works to create a safe space for storytellers to share their lived experiences with hunger and poverty. Those stories serve as fuel in the movement towards the right to food, and humanizes the effort to make policy change in local, county, and state government.