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Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.
Inmates must purchase phone credit and other goods using the money earned and stored in their prison-managed bank accounts. [5] Most commonly, spending is directed towards the canteen or prison shop. In public prisons, canteens provide products such as tobacco, hobby materials, stationery, non-prescribed medication, additional food and ...
Video visitation is the use of videoconferencing and/or analog CCTV systems and software to allow inmates and visitors to visit at a distance as opposed to face-to-face. It allows people with a computer, internet, webcam, and credit card to communicate with inmates at select jails.
JPay, the private corrections service, announced their latest prison product: a tablet.
JPay is a privately held information technology and financial services provider focused on serving the United States prison system.With headquarters in Miramar, Florida, the company contracts with state, county, and federal prisons and jails to provide technologies and services including money transfer, email, video visitation and parole and probation payments to approximately 1.5 million ...
A Minnesota couple has reportedly been sentenced to four years after they locked their children in cages for "their safety." Benjamin and Christina Cotton from Red Wing, were sentenced by a ...
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In Iceland, inmates in open environment prisons are allowed limited access to internet (social media and porn being barred) and browsing activity logged.Inmates in other classes of Icelandic prisons are banned from using the internet but use various methods to gain access, this is kindly overlooked by prison officers as long as inmates are not caught browsing or the prison does not receive ...