From Data is Plural, 2024-05-01:
Prison commissary prices. Through a series of public records requests, reporters at The Appeal have constructed the “first national database of prison commissary lists,” based on documents provided by 46 states. The database contains three tables. The first links to, and provides metadata about, each list. The second summarizes each state’s prices for two dozen types of products — such as ramen, toothpaste, and rosary beads — across three categories: food, personal care/hygiene, and religious items. The third table provides 2,200+ commissary-specific prices for those products. Read more: “Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated,” by reporters Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey. [h/t JQ Whitcomb]