This 2010 video explains the preparation of "prison spread," a kind of hybrid top ramen mixed with other jailhouse ingredients, highly customizable based on taste and circumstances.
The related videos are a deep seam of prison cuisine HOWTOs that celebrate incredible ingenuity and creativity under circumstances of extreme privation and arbitrary punishment. America's status as the world's most prolific imprisoner also makes it the nexus of amazing invention.
(via Kottke)