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Colorado Prisoners Were Knowingly Fed Recalled Beef NewsMax.com WiresDENVER – Colorado prison officials said Friday a new policy was instituted after they learned this week that hundreds of prisoners were knowingly fed ConAgra ground beef that had been recalled because of E. coli contamination. Top prison officials learned Wednesday night from the Denver Post that inmates at Buena Vista Correctional Complex and two other prisons had been served beef that was part of the ConAgra recall that was expanded to 18.9 million pounds on July 19. About 2,500 pounds of recalled ground beef was served to hundreds of inmates at the three prisons, but it was only at Buena Vista that prison officials knew they were serving the suspect meat, the Post reported Friday. Buena Vista inmates found the recalled beef in a kitchen freezer Saturday and told prison officials but it was cooked and served in meatloaf instead of returned as the department had done in past recalls, the Post reported. Alison Morgan, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections, said Friday that the agency was not alerted that they had received recalled beef as they have been in past. She said the beef was properly cooked and no inmates became sick. Morgan said "at this point" no disciplinary action is being considered. "More important is putting the policy into place to make sure that it doesn't happen again, and to put the procedures into place that whenever there is a recall, whether we think we're impacted or not, that we check all our products," she said. Morgan said the meat had been used since June 5 without incident because it was all cooked at temperatures above 160 degrees to destroy the E. coli organism. She said all 22 institutions have been checked for the recalled beef this week. Since the middle of June, 37 people in 11 states, 20 of them in Colorado, have become ill after eating ConAgra meat contaminated with E. coli, according to the Post.
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