A strongly worded ruling by a three-judge panel declared it isn't enough for the top state health officer, Dr. Tracey Green, to simply state that prisoners aren't malnourished.
"Green's report does not detail what foods are being served to inmates ... much less provide any explanation of how these unidentified foods provide inmates with a nutritionally adequate diet," the court said after reviewing Green's 2011 report to the Board of Prison Commissioners.
Green, head of the Nevada Division of Behavioral and Public Health, said in a statement Thursday that since 2011, her annual inspections of prison sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness, safety, diet and food preparation were up-do-date.
She said reports in the past "would only reflect deficient practices rather than demonstrate areas of compliance," and said her state Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance "plans to better document how the review takes place."
"The chief medical officer will continue to comply with law and any additional direction from the district court," the statement said.
State prisons are required to provide inmates with a "healthful diet."
