An inmate is accused of selling drugs to inmates in Harris County Jail as his 2 family members laundered nearly $30,000 to his commissary account, Texas cops say. Getty Images/iStockphoto An elaborate ...

The proposed changes come after scrutiny of the amounts in some inmates accounts, particularly inmates with notoriety. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are ...

More than $600,000 in Dallas County Jail inmates’ commissary funds may have been stolen and the FBI has been asked to figure out who is responsible. The issue is money that inmates place in accounts ...

A glitch in the Hopkins County Jail’s commissary system allowed inmates to receive credits on their account every time they ordered baby powder. According to the county’s jailer, one inmate was able ...

Two employees from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office in New Orleans have been arrested for allegedly embezzling over $90,000 from inmate commissary funds over a period of nearly two years. RELATED ...

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 ...

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.

NEW YORK (WLS) -- R. Kelly might have to cut back on spending from his inmate commissary account after a judge granted a motion Friday to take nearly $28,000 from the account, according to court ...

Nearly $700,000 was stolen from Dallas County jail inmate commissary accounts in a scheme involving damaged debit cards, the county auditor said. Now, the investigation has been turned over to the FBI ...

Earlier this month, when Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said he would spend $1.6 million in profits made off inmates to fund air conditioning at his jail facilities, the announcement shined a ...

An elaborate drug-selling process allowed a prison inmate to net nearly $30,000 in his jail commissary account by selling cannabis-laced papers to inmates, according to the Harris County District ...