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 ...

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, ...

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 50,000 inmates bought $38 million worth of candy, salty snacks, instant soup, beverages and other items from prison commissaries last year, with the profits being pumped back into ...

Anyone who has supported a loved one in prison knows that commissary prices for basic necessities and food to supplement the poor and scant provided meals inside are high. But how high? Our friends at ...

The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice, last week published an excellent report on commissary price gouging in U.S. prisons. It includes a database of prison commissary ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — A Los Angeles man who worked at a company that shipped packages to California prisoners has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison for using his job to ship drugs, saw blades, ...