May 15—Jails in Kentucky are required by law to provide 2,400 calories in meals every day to inmates. There's no law requiring jails to provide additional commissary services. Daviess County Jailer ...

Prisons, correctional facilities, and contractors working with those facilities in Massachusetts would be barred from charging incarcerated people more than 3% of the purchase cost for commissary ...

A pilot program to deliver commissary items to military families and veterans near Fort Liberty known as CLICK2GO will pause this summer. The program, of which Fort Liberty’s South Commissary was one ...

After more than a year of back and forth, the Luzerne County Prison Board voted Tuesday to seek bids for prison commissary purchases. The debate over bidding started in December 2007, when county ...

The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice, last week published an excellent report on commissary price gouging in U.S. prisons. It includes a database of prison commissary ...

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 50,000 inmates bought $38 million worth of candy, salty snacks, instant soup, beverages and other items from prison commissaries last year, with the profits being pumped back into ...

In the Sonoma County jail, shaving cream that sold for $3.25 in 2021 has doubled in price. The same goes for the price of shower shoes, which went from $1.65 to $3.49. Deodorant costs more than a ...

When someone is incarcerated, maintaining a connection with the outside world becomes a lifeline. One of the most powerful ways to keep that connection is through writing love letters. These letters ...

When Brian Anderson thinks of the work he does building homes for South Dakota's Governor's House Program, he equates it to "slave labor." He is, after all, an inmate at the Mike Durfee State Prison ...