Roger Toussaint was joined at breakfast yesterday by a man who failed to pay his child support, a landlord who did not make court-ordered repairs to his building, and a tenant who refused to pay a fine, Correction Department officials said.

Mr.Toussaint, the jailed leader of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, has his own cell in the civil crimes unit of the Bernard B. Kerik Complex, better known as “the Tombs.” He has no interaction with people arrested on criminal charges, a Correction Department spokesman, Michael Saucier, said.

He is allowed to wear his own clothes provided they have no gang symbols; he may shop at the jail commissary for snacks; he can watch television, and he gets to spend one hour a day on the rooftop recreation area, Mr. Saucier said. A mesh dome covers the area, but there is a clear view of the Empire State Building from the northern side, he said.

Yesterday, the 25 or so inmates in the unit were given a breakfast of fresh fruit, puffed rice, jelly, white bread, margarine, reduced-fat milk, and coffee or tea. Lunch was served at 11 a.m. and dinner at 5 p.m.

In between meals, Mr. Toussaint spent most of his time reading in his cell, union sources said. The Reverend Al Sharpton, the union’s secretary-treasurer, Ed Watt, and union lawyers visited him yesterday.

There is a law library inside the jail that sources said Mr. Toussaint might be using to research his attack on the Taylor Law, which makes strikes by municipal unions illegal and is responsible for his 10-day jail sentence and the $2.5 million in fines the union has sustained because of the strike.

“He is focused on the MTA board meeting and hopes that the MTA will do what it is morally and legally obligated to do – vote on the contract,” a union source said.

The MTA board is expected to discuss today whether to accept the union’s second vote on the contract agreement the members originally voted down in January by seven votes. Mr. Toussaint has said the first contract vote was “held hostage by politics” and largely misunderstood by members of the union because of a campaign of misinformation by newspapers, Governor Pataki, and dissident union leaders.

The contract was approved by 71% of about 20,000 voting members in a second vote.

The chairman of the MTA board, Peter Kalikow, has said the authority would not accept a second vote because the contract agreement was taken off the table when the union voted it down the first time. Mr. Kalikow said the MTA is now focused on getting a legally binding, arbitration panel-imposed contract. The Public Employee Relations Board started the process in March, but little progress has been made so far.