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While testifying before the Interim Judiciary Committee Friday, Northpoint Training Center Corrections Officer Matt Hughes told committee members the August 21st. riot was prompted by inmates who were upset over inadequate food being served. Hughes said, "The food was slop." State Corrections officials say, as early as this week, they will issue a report based on a Kentucky State Police investigation. State Representative Brent Yonts has filed a bill that would cancel a $12 million annual contract with Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services. Yonts says problems with food exist at state prisons all over Kentucky.