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Recent Examples of underfeedThat court order stems from a legal action that the Southern Center brought against Sheriff Franklin’s predecessor, Greg Bartlett, who had been underfeeding inmates while taking $212,000 in food money for his personal use.—Walt Bogdanich and Grace Ashford, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.
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