Cuyahoga County's jail commissary is owned by the same parent company that provides inmate meals, and it just raised prices. Inmates, staff and public officials have condemned the jail food's poor ...

Trelynn Wormley's mother sued over her son's overdose death in county custody. The lawsuit alleged the jail has a pattern of ...

Commissary profits too often fund sheriff’s expenses, not programs for people in jail, grand jury says, urging better management, more focus ...

A prison commissary provides inmates with the chance to buy personal items the prison facility doesn't — personal care products, snacks, beverages and writing materials.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A new system to allow money to be electronically deposited into inmates’ commissary accounts at the Montgomery County Jail does far more than allow the inmate to buy a ...

An elaborate drug-selling process allowed a prison inmate to net nearly $30,000 in his jail commissary account by selling cannabis-laced papers to inmates, according to the Harris County District ...

New flat-screen television sets funded by commissary money will soon be installed in day rooms at the Bexar County Jail, just in time for inmates to catch some of their favorite Christmas specials ...

In fiscal year 2004-05, the jail commissary sold $1,227,461 worth of items and cleared $321,734 after paying for personnel and the cost of the items themselves, Pima County records show. On an ...

The jail commissary is a store within the jail from which inmates can make purchases from their commissary account, which can be funded by friends and family.

Keefe took over the county jail’s commissary in the spring of 2023, after an internal investigation uncovered years of mismanagement and missing inventory while it was run by the sheriff’s office.