Why Your Organization Should Sign: Aramark Correctional Services serves over 400 million meals a year to more than 405,000 people in state prisons across 17 states, and tens of thousands more in U.S. jails. The company controls over one-third of the U.S. correctional food services market.

A new report from the Carceral Nutrition Project and Center for Science in the Public Interest, titled “Private Food, Public Harm” documents what incarcerated people have said for years: Aramark’s meals are unsafe, nutritionally inadequate, and served in quantities that leave people chronically hungry.

This is not a niche issue. It sits at the intersection of public health, food justice, racial equity, and corporate accountability. The nearly 2 million people incarcerated in the United States are disproportionately Black and Indigenous. The substandard food service Aramark provides is not an aberration; there are now documented, recurring patterns across multiple sites and states, sustained by weak contract enforcement and a business model that profits from hunger.

What you can do: Adding your organization’s name to this petition sends a direct signal to Aramark’s leadership that a broad, cross-sector coalition is watching, and demanding change. The petition calls on Aramark to adopt evidence-based nutrition standards for carceral food service, end unsafe food handling practices, stop the conflict of interest created when it operates both the meal service and the commissary in the same facility, and agree to independent oversight.

By signing this petition, you join a growing list of organizations telling one of the country’s most powerful food service corporations that the status quo in carceral food service is unacceptable. Aramark serves food in schools, military bases, sports arenas, hospitals, and universities. The company needs our business in all these places, and has a duty to feed our incarcerated loved ones better.

Who has already signed on: The petition is anchored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Carceral Nutrition Project, and Corporate Accountability. We are actively recruiting a growing list of organizational signatories across food justice, public health, criminal justice, and campus advocacy.

To add your organization: Complete the form below by July 4, 2026. We will list your organization’s name on the petition submitted to Aramark leadership by July 4, 2026.

Thank you!