Commissary vendors, which provide the food and hygiene items sold to incarcerated people at a markup, have for years reaped ...
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 ...
KYOTO--To a prison inmate, even a small box of cookies given by a visitor offers a brief escape from the harsh life behind bars. The snacks, a "gift" delivered from a prison commissary to recipients, ...
How would you like to pay $1.06 for a ramen noodle soup that costs $.39 at Wal-Mart? Or $2.81 for a four-ounce pack of tuna that runs $1.29 at Target? In mid-September, Keefe Co., the private, ...
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 ...
Oct. 25—The New Mexico Corrections Department has chosen a new vendor to provide commissary services for the nearly 6,000 inmates in the state's 11 prisons. But Keefe Commissary Network, the company ...
Jack stitches survival together with a needle and thread. He hems khakis, tapers shirts, and mends shoes for stamps. This ...
Josh Duggar's prison commissary funds were dramatically restricted, and it was all due to a staff member being the victim of a joke, In Touch can confirm. "A staff member was pranked, some sort of ...
An Air Force veteran and former Defense Department civilian employee was sentenced this week to a year and eight months in prison for punching a U.S. soldier in South Korea so hard that prosecutors ...