Thanks to dogged cleveland.com reporting, we now know that, under the prior county executive, Cuyahoga County agreed to separate County Jail food and commissary contracts with a built-in conflict of ...

As new Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne took office earlier this year, he promised two core “New Cuyahoga” goals -- a more humane County Jail and safer housing for the children in county ...

When it comes to being a jail inmate, comforts are hard to come by. And that’s the point — those who are either convicted or suspected of committing certain crimes, under Washington state law, lose ...

Pleasures from the outside world are few for the inmates of the Stark County Jail. There’s visitation. Mail. Phone calls. And the commissary. Oreo cookies, Snickers candy bars, Snyder’s Bar-B-Q Potato ...

BENTONVILLE — Sales at the Benton County Jail commissary are averaging $9,000 a week, almost triple January’s figures. That’s the kind of growth a certain retailer down the street would love to report ...

Second of two parts. Read the first part here. Sonoma County inmates fund their own welfare and education programs with purchases through the jail commissary, but even as prices have climbed for ...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) -- Indiana wants to tighten up the law regarding a sheriff's responsibility over jail funds. House Bill 1208, would increase the oversight over a county jail's commissary ...

Millions of dollars a year in profits from San Diego County jail commissaries are used by the sheriff’s department to pay routine expenses rather than to support programs that benefit the men and ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The commissary items range from 40 cents for a toothbrush to $7 for an item of women’s underwear. Candy bars like Hershey’s, Snickers, Reese’s peanut butter cups or Skittles ...

Nearly 250 bags of barbecue potato chips. One hundred seventy-five Hershey bars. Fifty bags of Jolly Rancher candies. The Pima County Adult Detention Center is apparently not the place to be if you ...

Cascade County is getting 20% of the sales from inmate purchases of candy, soft drinks and other items under a contract with a new company to manage commissary services at the Detention Center.