This article in the New York Times is about the prices prisoners have to pay in their store. You might ask what are they buying? Don't they have what they need provided? The basics are, i.e., soap and toilet paper but there are other things like shaving cream, shampoo, deodorant, and even snack food. There are some clothing items, too. Usually, families will send money but more than likely inmates have jobs. No one earns more than $ 2 an hour.
Inmates have to pay for telephone calls, too. Well, there's one vendor who supplies the prison store. The vendors bid for it but one vendor wins. So the prisoners have to buy from that one vendor--no comparison shopping. Anyway, this article will explain this.
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