{
"sop_number": "409.04.06",
"old_code": "IVL01-0005",
"title": "Field Packout Lunches",
"division": "Executive Division (Georgia Correctional Industries - Food and Farm Services)",
"topic_area": "409 Policy-GCI Food Service",
"effective_date": "2019-01-29",
"summary": "This policy establishes procedures for preparing and distributing packout lunches to offenders who are working away from their facility's dining area or on non-standard work schedules. Packout lunches serve as an alternative to regular dining facility meals and can only be provided to offenders working more than five hours outside the facility or on heavy labor assignments. The policy covers ordering procedures, storage and food safety requirements, transportation guidelines, and cost allocation between facilities.",
"key_topics": [
"packout lunches",
"field meals",
"work details",
"meal service",
"offender nutrition",
"food service",
"cold meals",
"meal requests",
"food storage",
"food safety",
"refrigeration",
"coolers",
"detail officers",
"medically prescribed diet snacks"
],
"cross_references": [],
"content": "|GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Standard Operating Procedures|Col2|Col3|\n|---|---|---|\n|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|\n|**Policy Number:** 409.04.06|**Effective Date:**1/29/2019|**Page Number:**1 of 3|\n|**Authority:**
Commissioner
|**Originating Division:**
Executive Division (Georgia
Correctional Industries - Food
and Farm Services)|**Access Listing:**
Level I: All Access
|\n\n\n\n**I.** **Introduction and Summary:**\n\nA. Packout Meals will be prepared in accordance with the Georgia Department of\n\nCorrections (GDC) Master Menu at GDC State Prisons, Residential Substance\nAbuse Treatment Centers, Transitional Centers, Pre-Release Centers, Parole\nCenters, and Detention Centers which operate kitchens for preparation of the\nGDC Master Menu. Exceptions may include contracted food service operations.\n\nB. Packout Meals are to be utilized for the purpose of providing an alternative to a\n\nmissed meal served in regular dining areas and should not be given in addition to\nother meals.\n\nC. Packout Meals can be provided to offenders working certain work schedules as\n\nindicated within this policy.\n\nD. Packout Meals will not be used as a reward.\n\n**II.** **Authority:**\n\nA. GDC Standard Operating Procedure (SOP): 409.04.01, Introduction.\n\n**III.** **Definition:**\n\n**Packout Meals** - Cold meals that are generally served outside of the dining facility\nto those who are involved in activities away from the facility. Packout Meals will\nconsist of items specified in the GDC Master Menu.\n\n**IV.** **Statement of Policy and Applicable Procedures:**\n\nA. Packout lunches shall be ordered by the Detail Security Officer or his/her\n\ndesignee using the Packout Meals Request Form (Attachment 1) at least eight (8)\nhours prior to the time in which they need to be received. Orders can be made by\ntelephone; however, a written request shall follow within 12 hours.\n\nB. The packout lunch will be served as an alternative to the lunch meal when the\n\noffender is away from his normal dining area on weekdays, weekends, and\nholidays.\n\n\n|GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Standard Operating Procedures|Col2|Col3|\n|---|---|---|\n|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|\n|**Policy Number:** 409.04.06|**Effective Date:**1/29/2019|**Page Number:**2 of 3|\n|**Authority:**
Commissioner
|**Originating Division:**
Executive Division (Georgia
Correctional Industries - Food
and Farm Services)|**Access Listing:**
Level I: All Access
|\n\n\n\nC. Offenders with certain work schedules can be provided packout lunches in\n\naccordance to the GDC Master Menu or other guidelines provided by Food and\nFarm Services Central Office Registered Dietitian. Any deviations from this\nprocedure must be approved by the Food Service Administrator at Food and\nFarm Services Central Office or the Executive Director of GCI or his/her\ndesignee. Packout Meals can be utilized for offenders with the following work\nschedules:\n\n\n1. Offenders working more than five (5) hours outside of the facility between\n\nthe breakfast meal and evening meal, or between the evening meal and\nbreakfast meal on weekdays, weekends and holidays.\n\n2. Offenders working heavy labor for more than five (5) hours between the\n\nbreakfast meal and evening meal on weekends and holidays.\n\nD. It is mandatory that each facility keep packout lunches, which do not relate to\n\nnormal feeding times, to a minimum. Excessive Packout Meals will be a major\nfinding on the monthly Food Service Assessment report.\n\nE. The cost of meals for offenders in transit between facilities will be charged to the\n\nfacility where the offender was housed.\n\nF. The Daily Packout Sheet (Attachment 2) must be completed and signed by the\n\nFood Service Director or designee. The Daily Packout Sheet and the Packout\nMeals Request Form should be filed with Attachment 1 of SOP 409.04.01, the\nDaily Food Service Packet.\n\nG. Individual items such as cakes, cookies, and cut vegetables will be wrapped in\n\nplastic wrap. Plastic wrap will also be used to wrap sandwiches to ensure\nfreshness.\n\nH. Only individual mayonnaise and mustard will be used for packout lunches.\n\n\nI. Packout lunches will be stored in a refrigerated unit after being prepared and\n\nserved within 48 hours.\n\n\n|GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Standard Operating Procedures|Col2|Col3|\n|---|---|---|\n|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|**Policy Name:** Field Packout Lunches|\n|**Policy Number:** 409.04.06|**Effective Date:**1/29/2019|**Page Number:**3 of 3|\n|**Authority:**
Commissioner
|**Originating Division:**
Executive Division (Georgia
Correctional Industries - Food
and Farm Services)|**Access Listing:**
Level I: All Access
|\n\n\n\nJ. Packout lunches sent on details will be placed in a cooler with ice or an ice pack\n\nto prevent spoilage. Ice will be placed in a plastic bag, or some other form of\nenclosure, in the bottom of the cooler to keep packout lunches from getting wet.\n\nK. All beverages sent out for details will be served from an insulated beverage\n\ncontainer. One eight-ounce Styrofoam cup will be furnished for each offender.\nThe correctional officer in charge of each detail will be responsible for any\ncoolers and containers and shall make sure they are in good condition at all\ntimes. The Correctional Officer will also be in charge of furnishing water to the\nwork detail as needed.\n\nL. Detail Officers will be responsible for maintaining and handling packout lunches\n\nin a sanitary condition.\n\nM. Detail Officers will provide an individual packout lunch to each offender on\n\ndetail.\n\nN. All packout lunches not issued by Detail Officer must be returned immediately.\n\nPackout lunches that do not get used should be disassembled and properly stored.\n\nO. If a Detail Officer or staff member consumes any part of a packout lunch, that\n\nperson must pay the current meal rate.\n\nP. Medically prescribed diet snacks shall be accounted for as Packout Meals and\n\nincluded in the total number of Packout Meals on the Daily Packout Sheet,\nAttachment 2. They should also be recorded separately in the space provided.\n\n**IV.** **Attachments:**\n\nAttachment 1: Packout Meals Request Form\nAttachment 2: Daily Packout Sheet\n\n**V.** **Record Retention of Forms to this Policy:**\n\nAttachments 1 and 2 of this SOP shall be maintained locally for one year in an active\nfile and five years in an inactive file, then destroyed.",
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