Even though inmates can purchase tampons at the commissary for $10 a box, the commissary is all out of those, too.
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A company representative told The Hill that the commissary is run by a third-party vendor, and that Geo Group does not profit off the commissary sales.
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A three-ounce bag of coffee on commissary sold by Keefe, the private food service giant running the kitchen and commissary at Northwest, cost $2.15 in Oregon's prison system, Edwards says.
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"Even Stop & Shop has their own commissary," he noted.
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B EECHER : People put money on commissary for you?
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Reuters viewed a copy of the center's commissary price list.
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They told me I could buy more in the commissary.
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Will there be people who avoid me at the commissary?
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That he wants relatives to deposit money in his commissary account?
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Each month they may spend up to $320 at the commissary.
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High commissary prices have long been a complaint of prison reformers.
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Sanctions include loss of phone, commissary, visiting privileges, and hole time.
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Cruz's prison commissary account contains $669, his defense told the court.
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Very often, folks have to buy these things from the commissary.
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She said CoreCivic follows all federal standards for ICE-contracted facilities, including management of the outside vendors that run its commissaries, prices for commissary products, and fees charged to families for depositing funds into detainees' commissary accounts.
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IF Spina wins, it'll mean big money ... for his prison commissary account.
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Mostly though ... he lost phone, recreation and commissary privileges for bad behavior.
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Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) and Big Boo (Lea DeLaria) stake out the commissary.
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In the Zume model, you've got a high-speed, co-botic commissary.
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That's a couple less candy bars they could buy from the commissary.
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DoorDash is opening its first shared commissary kitchen in Redwood City, Calif.
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And, he's not permitted to buy snacks or candy from the commissary.
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Once back at the detention center in Brooklyn, he learned to get his protein from canned tuna, eggs and peanut butter bought at the commissary, and to relish microwave meals of commissary mackerel, chicken, pork sausage and rice.
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Mr. Zarrab, in return, arranged to send money to that inmate's commissary account.
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The prisoners were gifted donations to their commissary accounts for each accepted submission.
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He can purchase items like toothpaste, reading glasses and candy from a commissary.
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Medha: From the commissary, the falafel batter heads to one of 10 locations.
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Commissary kitchens are "essentially WeWork for restaurant kitchens," as TechCrunch's Danny Crichton wrote.
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They would instruct you to buy over-the-counter medicines from the commissary.
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Some take a percentage of service contracts, including commissary sales and telephone charges.
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"Commissary" captures an excruciating display of restraint toward an incarcerated loved one's addiction.
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The third floor will be the commissary, where foods are prepared and stored.
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Each month they are allowed to spend up to $320 at the commissary.
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TDCJ will object that inmates would make wine if fruit were sold in commissary.
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Inmates could buy tampons, pads and other feminine hygiene products at a facility's commissary.
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Commissary. That's right behind my place and I usually go there in the mornings.
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The recipe is featured in his new cookbook, Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook.
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Bulger would compensate these men by giving them commissary stamps, and by other means.
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" She noted that "inmates may have harassed and coerced him, taken his commissary, etc.
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She offered me five dollars in commissary for the earrings, which I took, stupidly.
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Blinking as we stepped into the bright LA sunshine, we headed for the studio's commissary.
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Gay inmates often prostitute themselves, selling their bodies in exchange for money or commissary items.
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Do not think I didn't suffer in prison just because I had commissary and communication.
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The attack brought praise on Twitter with calls for donations to Stafford's jail commissary account.
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She also got gifts including a pair of crochêd booties and lotion from the commissary.
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We'd go to commissary and buy cookies or chips and put it in a bag.
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Cosmetics at the detention center commissary are limited to the basics, like toner and lotion.
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They see him as a target, and extort him for money from his commissary fund.
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He ate once a day, of provisions he bought for himself in the prison commissary.
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The newspaper reported that he spent $2,000 total on snacks and toiletries at the commissary.
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Other inmates yelled constantly, and he missed privileges like commissary and three daily phone calls.
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Driving back to the commissary in afternoon traffic will take much longer, Yu tells me.
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Miniature flashlights, ostensibly used for reading at night, cost about $8 in the jail commissary.
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Instead, you'll be told to buy over-the-counter meds that are offered on commissary.
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" "I will be happy to send money for your commissary to get stamps and such.
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She had toyed with making a joke about the commissary, but thought better of it.
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Keefe Commissary Network, which along with Access Securepak is part of Keefe Group, reported net sales of more than $6003 million from care package, commissary, and technology programs in 2600, according to a 22017 contract proposal posted on the West Virginia state government website.
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The food comes from a commissary kitchen attached to the garage in Long Island City, Queens; the city requires that food carts be serviced and supplied by a commissary, and there are many of them, of varying sizes, with different owners, all around New York.
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Being in jail, the smallest thing would get me frustrated—like commissary wouldn't come on time.
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There were Now and Later candies for sale at the commissary, in those six-inch packages.
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I also got in there and supplied makeup so it would be available in the commissary.
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She even tells Randall that she was saving her allowance to give to her mother's commissary.
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They can purchase various products at the commissary with a spending limit of $320 per month.
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"JPay is not a commissary company nor is it an inmate telephone company," the proposal read.
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Epstein spent roughly $2,000 at the jail's commissary on items like coffee, snacks, shampoo, and toothpaste.
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That lasted one day — long enough for him to have money stolen from his commissary account.
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Abby needs to think it through ... all sales are final once an inmate leaves the commissary.
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World Central Kitchen set up an emergency commissary kitchen in Chico on Saturday to provide relief.
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These types of kitchens go by many names, like commissary, virtual, dark, cloud, or ghost kitchens.
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They put his face on a sticker and sold it to raise money for his commissary.
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Papa John's relies heavily on its in-house commissary sales, what it charges franchisees for ingredients.
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Recently, Ms. Penn struck up a conversation with two women examining commissary receipts inside one box.
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Dove soap priced at $2.44 at the commissary is available for just over a dollar at Target.
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While she could eat at the jail's commissary, she prefers to prepare her own meals and coffee.
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The food is horrible.... At least Manafort is a wealthy enough to afford the expensive-ass commissary.
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More than 6,000 Texas inmates decided to donate $53,863 of their commissary funds to Hurricane Harvey victims.
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And get this ... during that same period, Bobby was also banned from buying anything from the commissary.
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Author note: This recipe is courtesy of Albert "Prodigy" Johnson's cookbook, Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook.
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Inmates receive a daily allowance of about $7.60, which they can save or spend at the commissary.
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Of the 12 order receipts reviewed by INSIDER, Epstein spent a total of $1,222.35 for commissary items.
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He also received "almost no commissary," and was only allowed 15 minutes of phone time per week.
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Each year, the inmates organize a fund-raiser, selling essential oils to fellow inmates through the commissary.
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Food and other commissary items are routinely withheld from him "without apparent reason or explanation," she wrote.
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Detainees can have money deposited in their accounts to buy additional food and toiletries from the commissary.
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Oxtoby, 31, is the director of sales at Food Evolution, a gourmet commissary in Schiller Park, Ill.
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They often customize their soups, loading them with other commissary items including packaged chips and lunch meats.
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He has opened a tiny storefront, mostly for takeout, in the building that houses his commissary kitchen.
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The restaurant, which Metrograph calls the Commissary, was inspired by old-school Hollywood commissaries on studio lots.
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She was discovered, at 14 or so, having lunch at the Universal Studios commissary with her mother.
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Windows rarely open; soap may only be available if you can pay for it from the commissary.
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And then remember that that $15 could have bought that addict 50 ramen soups from the commissary.
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But this menu staple from Koreatown's Commissary will give any NoLa po'boy a run for their money.
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In the first half of the year, these "commissary sales" represented about 35 percent of Papa John's profits.
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Or he could labor in the prison's kitchen to earn money to buy extra food at the commissary.
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I felt guilty for all my contact with people back home and my locker full of commissary products.
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They buy their commissary [items] on Friday, get it on Saturday, and then gamble all night with it.
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Likewise, commissary will not sell food seasonings such as onion powder, garlic, dehydrated onions and bell peppers, etc.
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They can watch TV in their cells, and have access to religious services, educational programs and a commissary.
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Prisoners' commissary accounts are usually funded by friends, family members, or through wages made by working prison jobs.
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TMZ has learned Bobby is working in the prison commissary at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
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My grandfather was a chef in the Navy and we would go shopping in the Navy commissary often.
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He worried about the cost of funding two commissary accounts so his sons could call him from jail.
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There is medical help on site and a commissary for those with cash to buy toiletries or snacks.
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Rodney claims he was raped and sold into sexual slavery for $20 in commissary items during his confinements.
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The only time that I would go to commissary was on the night that they had baked chicken.
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The other, which includes a cashier's check, goes to a lockbox in a different state for his commissary.
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And in a unit reserved for the most dangerous inmates, a clerk from the commissary policed the corridors.
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H.I.G. Capital: Trinity Services Group, a provider of food and commissary services to correctional facilities in 43 states.
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Instead, I took out a package of Fig Newtons, bought at the American Embassy commissary in Tel Aviv.
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Besides renting a commissary space, you may also need to rent space to prepare your food, says Jeon.
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Once Mr. Spears was behind bars, he said, Mr. Lesnak deposited $100 a month in his prison commissary.
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Posting because this photo was taken at the release party of my book with Prodigy called Commissary Kitchen.
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"Tampons are available on commissary to buy and I've seen people use pads to make [tampons]," she said.
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The kiosk lets inmates check their account balances, buy items from the jail commissary, and send and receive emails.
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A 2.5 oz tube of Effergrip denture cream that sells for $4.99 at Walmart is $7.12 at the commissary.
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To celebrate, each woman had saved food from the commissary, like sardines, chicharones, and rice, to create makeshift sushi.
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Sometimes, we pass each other in the halls on the way to or from an appointment, a meal, commissary.
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For example, inmates overwhelmingly agree that if fruits and vegetables were sold in commissary, they would buy them regularly.
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This year, the team opened up a tiny cafe, The Den, in the front of the commissary kitchen building.
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What's more ... Apollo says the couple constantly check up on him and even put money in his commissary account.
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One winds up eating on lot most of the time, at either the commissary or else on the midway.
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Papers, nudie pics taped to walls, extra sheets and blankets, and extra commissary items are tossed out of cells.
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I rented my food truck from a local commissary on a week-by-week basis for $250 a week.
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At least, that's what LA's Commissary, by way of New Orleans' esteemed sandwich and seafood tradition, seems to think.
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That's a veritable fortune in a facility like Great Meadow, where wages are spent almost exclusively on commissary items.
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With no prior experience in the food industry, Chteoui went from working in fashion to opening their commissary kitchen.
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He took one of the four kitchens in DoorDash's new 2,000-square-food commissary that opened earlier this month.
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Inmates also get a $50 bump in commissary funds for December to use on chocolates, cookies and peanut cluster bars.
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We're told several of the threats involved extortion ... put money in the inmate's commissary account or else endure physical violence.
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To help keep stores afloat, the pizza chain has been reducing short-term royalties, fees and commissary prices for franchisees.
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Now he's dealing exclusively in Swiss Miss, selling individual packets of hot chocolate that he's stockpiled from the prison commissary.
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You're just surrounded by four walls with a dim light, with no cellmate, no commissary, no pictures of your family.
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And the word came down to the commissary that whenever Mama went to lunch, she was to be given consomé.
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We're building a crowdfunding platform to help queer and trans people raise money for prison-related costs — bail, bond, commissary.
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The organization offered to compensate each participant for postage costs and put $50 into its commissary account for accepted works.
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DoorDash recently announced the opening of its own commissary kitchen in Redwood City, about an hour south of San Francisco.
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THOSE ARE THE THREE LEVERS, I SUPPOSE THEY CAN SELL THEM MORE THINGS OUT OF THE COMMISSARY == MAYBE FOUR LEVERS.
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You know the guy that's rollin', he's got money on the streets, he's got it goin' on, by his commissary.
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Oneal said that it's also not clear when money in his commissary account at Gulf will be transferred to Mayo.
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They learned that the commissary account for Mr. Villavicencio was suddenly cleared, which is usually a precursor to immediate deportation.
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Name-brand tampons are available at the jail commissary for about $4 a box, though some women can't afford them.
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The prosecutors also note that he has a radio and was permitted to buy a clock from the prison commissary.
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Then he moved to a commissary bakery and finally to the Wynwood arts district, known for its lavish graffiti walls.
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An inmate with $25,751 in his commissary account was giving orders in elaborately coded phone calls from prison, prosecutors said.
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With fewer locations, Papa John's may be forced to raise its commissary prices in order to make up the difference.
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The prison commissary sells skullcaps for $6 and offers a kosher selection that includes matzo, gefilte fish, rugelach and seltzer.
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He joked Lori might need some help at the prison commissary soon -- but then got serious about what she's facing.
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The Mobb Deep rapper's "Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook" was recently banned by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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Some prisoners may try and squeeze him for funds to use on the commissary (where they buy food and other comforts).
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He refuses to eat anything other than what has been sent in packages from Deja or is available in his commissary.
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Incarcerated people and their families spend an estimated $1.6 billion every year on commissary items such as toiletries, clothes and games.
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At units where horticulture classes are offered, inmates buy black-market salads every day because they are not available in commissary.
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Lastly, the judge says Chapo ain't getting his hands on anything from the commissary 'cause the items can be easily weaponized.
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Name brand tampons and pads are also available at the center's commissary, where feminine hygiene products can cost up to $7.65.
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One unit, the Defense Commissary Agency, improved its audit results to receive a passing grade for the first time, McCusker said.
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Lomax and Work set up the recording equipment at the commissary of the Stovall Plantation and persuaded Waters to come around.
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If a woman needs more than that, she may request them or buy them at her own expense at the commissary.
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Her family cut her off when she entered prison, so she used her art to buy soap and other commissary basics.
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Hand sanitizer is not readily made available in common areas, we have to purchase our own hand sanitizer from the commissary.
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Now a free man, that salty taste of commissary ramen remains with him—and he's setting out to change the menu.
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We got a copy of the commissary stocklist at FCC Victorville, where Abby just started her 366-day sentence for fraud.
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If they can hold on for "breakfast" long enough, the on-site commissary is known to serve tasty omelets after midnight.
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He couldn't even write letters, as his commissary privileges had been revoked—meaning that he was unable to purchase writing materials.
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Privately held DoorDash will exclusively deliver his food from the commissary, where rent is based on a percentage of gross sales.
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Companies that offer care package programs often bundle additional services, such as phone and commissary, into one contract with a corrections agency.
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If the guy was lucky, some passing friend would toss him a few ramen noodles from commissary so he wouldn't go hungry.
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I began to feel better physically, until one day, I could finally enjoy a warm shower and the food from the commissary.
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An underground passageway for transporting supplies leads to other apartment buildings owned by the Witnesses, complete with a bodega-like underground commissary.
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As we reported, Epstein was extorted by several inmates who threatened him with death unless he put money in their commissary accounts.
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He graduated last year from Oak Harbor High School and listed himself on Facebook as a bagger at the Whidbey Island Commissary.
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But before the falafel hit the counters at restaurants.... They start right here, in Newark, New Jersey, at their very own commissary.
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Another prisoner apparently used his personal access code to move money from his commissary account to an outside source, Mr. Johnson said.
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The food will all come from Henry Rich, the local restaurateur behind Rucola, who will run a commissary kitchen in the building.
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The new space will also accommodate parties (people keep asking to have weddings at Hometown Bar-B-Que) and a commissary kitchen.
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The facility provides a bar of soap for bathroom sinks, and more is available for purchase at the commissary once a week.
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He recalled leaving with just a bus ticket, the clothes on his back, and $2012 — the remaining balance on his commissary account.
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Inmates wear jumpsuits to work, and then generally change into shorts or sweat clothes that they can buy at the facility's commissary.
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Instead of buying ham and lard from a plantation commissary, Ms. Height bragged, Delta women went a year without store-bought pork.
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Workers also had to buy food, clothing, household wares, tools, seed and fertilizer at the plantation commissary, which charged exorbitant interest rates.
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Depending on how much storage you need, it'll cost between $2100,000 and $1,500 a month for commissary space in New York City.
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Mr. Zarrab also had money wired to the inmate's family in Africa and placed in the inmate's commissary account, the lawsuit says.
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Unlike facilities in other parts of the country, inmates at the prison were permitted to smoke and purchase tobacco from the commissary.
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"There are panty liners in our commissary for purchase; however, I have never seen panty liners provided free of charge," she said.
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Papa John's earlier this year announced it is giving assistance to its franchisees in the manner of reduced royalties, fees and commissary prices.
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The parking lot for the commissary on post is dotted with car decals advertising sellers' custom websites for Thirty-One Gifts and Scentsy.
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Doggett, who was hiding out in the commissary with Boo, has managed to trade a bag full of candy bars for a phone.
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Metrograph Commissary The food at screenings of golden oldies and other films at this plush new cinema is not everyday popcorn and soda.
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The lot had its own railway station to ship in lumber for set-building, and the commissary fed some 2,700 people per day.
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Growing desperate, Yazmin called her mother in New Jersey, who wired her money to buy tea and lemon at the commissary for Mariee.
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The current pay leaves many prisoners struggling to afford phone calls to family members or toothpaste and deodorant from the commissary, experts said.
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He also gets heart-healthy options for breakfast, lunch and dinner ... but we're told he can also request junk food from the commissary.
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They would pass the time playing chess, each man with his own set purchased from the commissary, calling out moves through the pipes.
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He told Siatta he would stay in the cell for a few weeks and eat commissary food until the bruises and cuts healed.
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When added, the reported figures — from 6900 — reveal $2628 million for phone calls, $28503 million for commissary items and $22020,000 for disciplinary fines.
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He was found guilty, and received nearly a year of box time plus the loss of all privileges during that period: commissary, phones, packages.
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Warren also said she would work to prohibit "exploitative price markups" on commissary items and do away with charges for probation or supervision services.
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The commissary menu on Otisville's website advertises matzo ball soup, gefilte fish and rugelach, a pastry, alongside Doritos tortilla chips and Diet Sprite soda.
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They also complained that the cell has no natural light, and the clock Guzman purchased from commissary was taken from the room without explanation.
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On a scrap of paper were $10 worth of commissary items: two bags of tortilla chips, a toothbrush and a box of laundry soap.
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With some supplies from the commissary and mess hall, they had all the ingredients — cream cheese, graham crackers, and vanilla extract, mostly — they needed.
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Instead of going to the chow hall three times a day, I could prepare a meal in my cell with food from the commissary.
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Since volunteering as a sponsor, Aheron has helped line up free medical and mental healthcare, transportation, and ongoing contributions to the women's commissary accounts.
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And the famed escape artist says he can't tell if it's day or night because the clock he bought at the commissary was confiscated.
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Meadows is unable to purchase bras through commissary or access them through medical care, so she has almost always resorted to making bras herself.
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He can't read or write, and that makes even the most mundane tasks super difficult, such as figuring out what's on the commissary list.
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A serial pedophile who was sent to jail for abusing dozens of minors once helped with regular visits and commissary cash from Opus Bono.
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Geo Group said its inmate commissary account services are provided by a third-party vendor, and that it does not profit from those transactions.
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Once he was incarcerated, Fisher says, he would occasionally ask the lawyer, Burt Channing, to put some of the money into his commissary account.
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Working clandestinely in his cell, he made printed transfers on his prison bed sheets, using hair gel and colored pencils from the prison commissary.
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They have a quiet conversation comparing the items we are able to buy at our commissary versus what is sold at their home prison.
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Prisoners have to get pretty creative at the commissary or start a vegetable-smuggling ring if they want to eat anything close to gourmet.
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Mr. King found a job as a meat manager at the commissary of a Navy facility, while Ms. King worked for a state agency.
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Mr. Rahmati woke at 4 every morning and headed to a commissary kitchen in Long Island City, Queens, to start preparing the day's meals.
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So we've become a studio, to use that word, doesn't mean we have a commissary, it simply means that we manufacture and own material.
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There are benefits -- like savings accrued at the commissary or housing allocation paid with specific allowances based on the geographic area -- and those help.
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Cosby at Pennsylvania's SCI Phoenix: -- Bill's basically getting coal in his commissary stocking because his canteen ain't adding a darn thing for the holidays.
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Some prisons, for example, force female inmates to buy pads at the commissary, and public restrooms rarely provide them free of charge for emergencies.
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The dough, cheese and other products that franchisees need to make the pizzas are proprietary and must be bought through the Papa John's commissary.
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The inmates are allowed to spend $285 a month at the commissary, where pepperoni slices cost $2.40 and Cheetos can be had for $1.90.
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He said that he'd stopped leaving his cell much, preferring to eat canned food from the commissary instead of going to the dining hall.
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There is a commissary, a temporary medical clinic, a toilet facility, and a fresh water filtration unit on the back of a National Guard truck.
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I was on the news almost every day, I received copious mail, my family visited often, and I was always able to afford basic commissary.
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Many of America's inmates do not have family who can send them money to buy items off the prison commissary, like coffee, food, and toiletries.
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Our guides proudly show us the fancy electronic kiosks where detainees can order whatever they please from the commissary list: phone cards, stamps, junk food.
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As of last February, Madoff had gotten a job in the prison commissary, which would've given him access to those coveted packages of Swiss Miss.
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Meek will hit the prison commissary for the first time Friday for jailhouse snacks and toiletries, and he'll get his first visitor sometime next week.
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Jeremy got hired by Postmates this week -- at least for Wednesday -- to deliver a plate of deviled eggs from the L.A. restaurant Commissary to Amber.
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To keep the underground economy afloat, inmates purchase stamps at full price from the commissary, so a "book" of ten stamps is worth about $4.
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Purchases made at the commissary help inmates cope with the extreme heat, as well as avoid having to barter favors in the cellblock black market.
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Was it that soon enough someone would be sympathizing with you, and then demanding that you help them out with a few things, like commissary?
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All of the chefs operate out of Tartine's San Francisco commissary kitchen, butchering, slow-roasting and fermenting their goods before delivering them to the airport.
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Each unit has two bedrooms, one toilet and a shower and is within walking distance of the Navy base's baseball field, bars, commissary and cafeteria.
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Racks upon racks of servers were assembled in the commissary, connected to hundreds of computers and video cameras by 25 miles of fiber-optic cable.
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He had been released from prison in June, after having romanced the mother of another inmate, persuading her to fill his commissary account each week.
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" Food truck owners have to rent a parking space at a commissary, explains Jeon: "It's illegal to park anywhere else, even in your own home.
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They then spent time in L.A. in October, where they had an intimate dinner with her close friends at the Commissary restaurant at The Line Hotel.
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After 60 days there, you receive all of your personal property and go to Level 1, where you can buy food items and coffee from commissary.
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While his chef-driven pâtisserie and cafe, Craftsman and Wolves, was located in the Mission, Werner needed a more affordable place for the business' commissary kitchen.
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But when I heard that some other guys were "taxing" him (charging him some of his commissary to live in the unit), my guard went up.
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And members of the military are used to rumors and murmurs about directives that will change things as innocuous as commissary hours to orders to deploy.
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The ability to access gender-affirming clothing and other goods at commissary can go a long way toward improving the mental health of incarcerated trans people.
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In 2016, the rapper published "Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook" with Iandoli, which contained recipes and stories about the food he experienced while in prison.
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Fogle has reportedly been on a downward dietary spiral at Englewood prison in Colorado ... supposedly heavier by 30 lbs and counting, courtesy of the prison commissary.
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Commissary funds are prison-specific money accounts that can be used to purchase small items from prison commissaries (things like cough drops, Oreos, and postage stamps).
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The company said its commissary prices are "in line with comparable local markets" and that the Geo Group earns only a "minimal commission" on the goods.
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He passes his days weaving purses from potato-chip bags and selling them to other inmates for "siete pollos," seven portions of chicken from the commissary.
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Chang (Lori Tan Chinn), the quiet loner who presided over the commissary during less volatile times, was among the only inmates who noticed Ruiz's escape route.
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These twin trends have created a new and nearly invisible kind of restaurant with no dining room, just a commissary kitchen that fulfills orders to go.
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They make their soups in a commissary in Long Island City, Queens, and now sell them in the Urbanspace Vanderbilt food hall near Grand Central Terminal.
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But when Mr. Reese gets hungry between meals, or when his state-issued supplies run out, the commissary money buys him extra food and other necessities.
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Because of prison rules, Ms. von Furstenberg had to donate to the commissary account of the artists whose work she accepted instead of paying them directly.
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He passes his days weaving purses from potato-chip bags and selling them to other inmates for 'siete pollos,' seven portions of chicken from the commissary.
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Members pay $5 dues at mandatory weekly chapter meetings, funds that are used for bail, weapons, parties, drugs, prison commissary costs, even everyday items like Pampers.
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Because of the nature of my crime, I was initially denied any right to touch the prison computers for email or to check my commissary balance.
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She washes her face with cold water, combs her hair, pats on foundation, and lines her eyes with the black eyeliner she bought at the prison commissary.
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Given its proximity to New York's sizable Jewish population, the commissary includes a number of kosher foods, including matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, beef cholent and rugelach.
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They then spent time in Los Angeles in October, where they had an intimate dinner with her close friends at the Commissary restaurant at The Line Hotel.
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I made a connection with the sick inmates, and they appreciated me, offering to buy me commissary or pay me every month to keep helping them out.
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For the next 60 hours, Zayner hid out in the hotel room, leaving only to buy snacks in the hotel commissary or eat in the hotel restaurant.
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In order to put money in their commissary accounts to afford urgent phone calls, many detainees have no other choice but to work for $1 a day.
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Accumulate enough floss at the commissary and you could use it to fashion a rope as thick as a telephone cord, as one man did in 1994.
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He told her that inmates worry the prison commissary will not be replenished once supplies run out, and she urged him to stock up now on food.
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In the company's commissary kitchen, Mr. Pépin said he learned how to can ingredients to keep them fresh when transferred between restaurants, to cook meats sous vide.
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The two-and-a-half-hour classes are being taught through the end of April in the bakery's commissary: Baking classes, $110 and a $4.84 fee, Feb.
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Delivery leader GrubHub continues to explore ways to connect diners and restaurants, but a commissary is not coming anytime soon, said Stan Chia, GrubHub's chief operating officer.
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One of her methods is to take tank tops and cut the bottom off and then sew in an elastic, using sewing kits and razors purchased from commissary.
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According to Reuters, a can of tuna was being sold at the commissary for $3.25 – reportedly more than four times the price tag at a Target near Adelanto.
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Taqueros who had worked out of home kitchens ended up with a commissary, where they bought supplies in bulk and used commercial-grade equipment to cook and clean.
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Most of his other commissary purchases were more mundane, including 800 single-serve cups of coffee, Hershey's almond bars, and underwear presumably for himself: medium-sized men's briefs.
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In her basement, a makeshift commissary is stocked from floor to ceiling with donated dishware, towels, blankets and furniture that she gives to needy S.I.V. holders in Rochester.
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Jones transfers about $100 a month to her boyfriend's account so he can buy food and supplies from the prison commissary, as well as credits for phone calls.
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Ms. Sawari's group has suggested that inmates could stop reporting for work, stop eating or perform subtler protests, such as no longer buying supplies from the prison commissary.
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There, 25 refugees, most of them women, work as catering chefs, producing the traditional dishes of their home countries from a commissary kitchen in Long Island City, Queens.
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Normally, they'd be able to check their funds before making commissary purchases, prison diet staples like Pop-Tarts or ramen, or personal hygiene products like razors and soap.
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Food is available to take out or to eat in at communal tables, and, since the hotel does not offer room service, it's also a commissary for guests.
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Every month, Telita Hayes adds nearly $200 to the commissary account for her ex-husband, William Reese, who has been in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 28 years.
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However, franchisees are already struggling because of the weaker sales and are currently receiving assistance from the company in the manner of reduced royalties, fees and commissary prices.
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A commissary in Maspeth, Queens, supplies some of the goods, but many of the breads and pastries are being baked on the premises in the Union Square flagship.
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She observed facilities where prisoners are allowed to wear their own clothes, cook their own food (knives allowed) and receive a daily allowance to spend at the commissary.
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She also works with the Bon Appétit Management Company to operate Public House, at Oracle Park, and three ventures in the Presidio with the Presidio Trust: the Commissary.
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But immigration attorneys say the pricey commissary goods are part of a broader strategy by private prisons to harness cheap inmate labor to lower operating costs and boost profits.
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Relatives can send money electronically to fund their loved ones' commissary accounts, for fees that can reach as high as 10 percent of the amount deposited, some families report.
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Bexx is also in the process of sending Neil and Joe art supplies with the intention of helping them sell their creations to put money into their commissary accounts.
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I know from having written a storyline about it, that I should fill V's commissary card so she can buy a phone card at the kiosk (assuming it works).
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Fish was good because you could buy hundreds of dollars worth at a time from the commissary, whereas you were only allowed to buy one $10 book of stamps.
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"He noticed, and nobody really noticed," Haddish said through tears over tea at Coffee Commissary in West Hollywood, a few miles away from the parking lot where everything changed.
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On Wednesday, the panel plans to look at the effects of reduced investment in base infrastructure on the Air Force and hold a separate hearing on military commissary reform.
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Given its proximity to New York's sizable Jewish population, the FCI Otisville commissary includes a number of kosher foods, including matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, beef cholent and rugelach.
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"A lot of people surrender to prison, and because they don't have the money sorted out, they're not going to shop in the commissary for a week," Paperny said.
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On the second floor, the Commissary restaurant serves cold-pressed green juice and kimchi and carnitas tacos in an open-air greenhouse that leads out to the pool deck.
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At Coleman, Mr. Bulger wielded enough influence to have "runners," other inmates who would sneak him food from the chow hall and snacks from the commissary, prison workers said.
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After the studio tour, guests will be whisked away for a Friends-themed Thanksgiving meal at the Studio's Commissary Fine Dining Room, where the cast often ate while filming.
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The company is experimenting with autonomous vehicle deliveries, a partnership with Chase to offer free deliveries to credit card customers and a red-brick commissary in Redwood City, Calif.
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For example, he cites little to no access to the commissary, poor hygiene and a regiment of psych meds that he doesn't seem to think are helping at all.
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"If they reduce our royalties temporarily due to John's PR issues, they will just raise our commissary prices to make up for it and then some," the franchisee said.
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From the FOIA requests, 2628 counties provided data on phone costs, 28500 counties provided data on commissary costs, and nine counties provided data on disciplinary ticket costs, Schaffer said.
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Vioney Gutierrez, a former detainee at Geo Group's Adelanto facility in California, said 10 percent of the money her family spent to fund her commissary account was consumed by fees.
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He's also been reprimanded during his time in prison, twice for a scheme that involved getting other inmates to pay for his food and other items from the prison commissary.
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There's no way to reach her by phone; she doesn't have commissary money to call to me, and a letter sent today won't wend its way to her in time.
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That might not sound like much, but prisoners don't have access to their normal bank accounts or cash, which means the funds were all taken out of their commissary funds.
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Earlier this year, Reuters reported that asylum seekers detained in private detention centers overseen by ICE can buy toothpaste in the commissary — for $224 per 216 oz tube of Sensodyne.
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On the social front, a full-service restaurant called the Commissary will open later this month, along with a bar and film-themed bookstore that can be used for events.
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"What if you have an inspected kitchen on site that is ten feet away?" is the question that led Foust to begin plans for a commissary kitchen at Little Piggy.
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Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the railroad, say the beer carts — 18 of them, and two stationary "commissary counters" — are not returning until the investigation is over.
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If you walk through the classrooms, people of every shade are quietly discussing their schoolwork, hugging friends as they trickle back from winter break, having lunch in the campus commissary.
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"It's very disgraceful that guys are hustling other people out of commissary or their family's money and don't have the knowledge or expertise to do a good job," he said.
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So I knew I needed something that had a little bit more viscosity to it, and I just looked at the commissary list and they had hair gel listed there.
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There is a commissary with plenty of items for sale, including makeup, snacks like Pop-Tarts and chocolate chip cookies, air freshener, cough drops, playing cards and sunglasses, among other items.
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Since my incarceration, none of my brothers or my other sister have "made the time" to write, visit, send money for commissary, or be concerned with my well-being—only Angela.
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According to the list of commissary items at the Butner facility, a packet of hot cocoa with marshmallows costs 20 cents, while the more upscale sugar-free variety is 35 cents.
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On a Saturday afternoon, I meet the pair at the commissary that Bludso's BBQ uses for catering as well as an office space where Black does his bookkeeping for the restaurant.
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Since neither my cellie nor I are into any dirt—gambling, tattoos, drugs, running a commissary-loan shop at 200 percent interest, etc...—we have nothing to fear from the ninjas.
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When men are in prison, they seem to get visits frequently from girlfriends, who also add money into their commissary accounts so they can buy small items and make phone calls.
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Those who do well can be rewarded with funds on their commissary accounts, a big incentive since ADX prisoners are not allowed to earn money by working at a prison job.
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He said incoming inmates won&apost immediately have toiletries because they have to buy them from the commissary once incarcerated, but other inmates often give them items on a rent-basis.
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Over the years, he had stocked shelves in the commissary at Auburn; helped cook the food at Comstock; mowed the grass at Attica; worked early mornings baking bread at Green Haven.
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During orientation, Nassar will learn about his schedules for sleeping and eating, as well as his responsibilities, educational opportunities, how the commissary works, visiting hours and other aspects of inmate life.
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Captain Greg Sullivan of the Merced County Sheriff's Department disputed that inmates went on a "true" hunger strike, noting some ate from the commissary or received food during visits to the infirmary.
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"We found the objects in glass casings in a room, absolutely inaccessible to anyone," said Marcelo El Haibe, Inspector Commissary with the Cultural Heritage Protection of Argentina's Federal Police in a statement.
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Without the option to sell tobacco in his commissary, the jail saw a new set of problems emerge, like withdrawal issues, inmate fighting, and an increase in black market trading of tobacco.
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Only the losers, the prisoners with no money, eat in the chow hall, it turns out; the rest dine in their cells on junk food and ramen noodles purchased from the commissary.
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The New York Times reported that inmates in prisons throughout Texas donated $53,863 for Harvey relief after Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials allowed them to donate funds from their commissary accounts.
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Her doctors and psychologists testified during the trial that she had severe anxiety and depression, including episodes of being suicidal, as a result of being denied treatments and access to women's commissary items.
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Others work in the commissary or post exchange, some serve as guards at the gate, even more contribute in the dining facilities or in supply exchanges, on the ranges, or as safety officers.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, the stand served spaghetti made from a local commissary kitchen, and featured menu items like take-out spaghetti ($9), spaghetti with meatballs ($12), and a spaghetti sandwich ($11). .
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Kaufman Astoria Studios was the original home of Paramount Pictures, but these days, television shows like Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" and movies are shot there and the original commissary is a restaurant.
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More than 6,600 incarcerated individuals in Texas dipped into their limited commissary funds to donate to the American Red Cross, pooling together more than $53,000 for Harvey relief efforts, WPXI in Pittsburgh reported today.
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A detained immigrant who was paid $1 a day for his work at a privately run detention facility in California was reportedly subjected to higher than normal prices for goods at the site's commissary.
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Everything an inmate can buy — phone calls, commissary, copays for substandard medical care, video visitation or the new email service — is purchased through a special account created by the prison or a private company.
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His Alice B. Toklas is a sad old woman, alone, impoverished and so hungry she writes recipes for an American magazine in order to gain access to the cheap food at the embassy commissary.
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After a quick clean up, the full team heads back to the commissary in Long Island City to do a deep clean of the truck and replenish it with ingredients for the next day.
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There are currently no limits to how much money inmates can have in their commissary accounts, Mr. Gonzalez said, adding that he will refer the matter to the New York State Department of Corrections.
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"There are 140 of us who have organized to share our commissary," wrote Ulises, who came to the United States to seek protection from the abuse he suffered as a gay man in Honduras.
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Meek Mill might be behind bars, but that doesn't mean he can't buy himself awesome Christmas gifts from his commissary, and same goes Martin Shkreli, but not so much El Chapo and Abby Lee Miller.
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Her doctors and psychologists testified that she has severe anxiety and depression, and has at times been suicidal, as a result of being denied treatment and access to commissary items that align with her gender.
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Months after his conviction, El Chapo filed a motion asking for more outdoor rec time while in prison and access to the general pop commissary ... but the judge said no way, due to his history.
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The financier Jeffrey Epstein once bought two pairs of small women's panties from the commissary at the Palm Beach jail more than a decade ago, The Miami Herald reported Saturday, citing newly obtained purchase logs.
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Part of the scheme, according to the lawsuit: Depriving detainees of basic necessities like food, toothpaste, soap and toilet paper, so they have to work to pay for those items from the detention center's commissary.
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When some fools from Richmond wanted to rob me, they asked him to leave our cell door unlocked so that they could steal what I owned — a little food from the commissary, a few books.
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The prison officials inventoried his possessions — a hot pot, a few books and magazines, a pair of plastic flip-flops — and handed him an envelope with $63.90 in cash, the balance from his commissary account.
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Instead, officials said the practice has become commonplace at some institutions where even some plumbers, electrical workers, budget analysts and commissary staffers have been patrolling prison yards and filling officer vacancies in maximum security units.
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On board I dial into conference calls with the restaurant group, then hear a sales pitch from an old college friend who has started a "ghost kitchen" — a shared commissary that just fulfills delivery orders.
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To hear him tell it, the place isn't half bad for Jewish inmates like him and Cohen: There's Shabbat services, monthly trips to a Mikvah bath, and Kosher commissary options like gefilte fish and rugelach.
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"We decided to not name her until she comes out," he told PEOPLE Saturday in Los Angeles during the Step2 Presents 6th Annual Celebrity Red CARpet Safety Awareness Event at the Commissary at Sony Pictures Studio.
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The first day of every season, I'd make the actors and the staffs of the shows I was producing come together in the commissary and I'd give a little welcome, like it was camp, Camp Marshallmount.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After helping customers bypass dining rooms, food delivery company DoorDash is giving chefs the option to do the same with delivery-only "virtual" restaurants run out of its new commissary in Silicon Valley.
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There's also no imagining the waves of despair that come with purchasing no-name, dehydrated beans off commissary and "cooking" them with tepid water in a fruit fly-infested shower that doubles as a laundry machine.
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Those with people on the outside can have money put on their books for commissary and choose from a "convenience store" full of salty snacks, dehydrated beans, tortillas, candy, tuna, chips, beef sticks, and other crap.
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This past month, he moved his production into La Boulangerie's 40,000 square-foot commissary kitchen in South San Francisco, where he says he can produce up to 10 times more bread for his mail-order business.
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Nearly all of the base supplies — like family household shipments, frozen pizza dough for the bowling alley food court and rental cars for the base commissary — arrive twice monthly on a government contract barge from Florida.
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The convenience store is a short walk from two public charter schools — Eagle Academy and Kipp DC Somerset College Preparatory — and is the sole commissary for families whose routines don't necessarily include a home-prepared lunch.
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CreditCreditChris Buck for The New York Times As we took a seat in the back of the Commissary, a restaurant on the Sony Pictures Studios lot, Mike Judge pointed out a man seated two booths away.
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They ruled that, because Moore figured out how to calculate buying goods at the prison commissary and learned how to read at a seventh-grade level while in prison, he passed its new intellectual disability test.
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"His back-of-the-commissary-envelope calculation indicates that Phoenixus could be worth $3.7 billion by the time he is due to be freed in 2023, according to a person familiar with his thinking," the Journal reports.
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Then again, the last time he was summoned to the office, a prison official heartily congratulated him — but only because he had been given the privilege to select the Christmas specialties to be sold in the commissary.
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When I inquired when it began to hurt, she answered that it didn't hurt but that it was Tuesday and she always does grocery shopping at the commissary on Tuesday and thought she would have her throat checked.
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Duglas Cruz, a Honduran detainee who spent eight months at the Adelanto Detention Facility last year, told Reuters that he had to resort to bartering for cookies and ramen noodles because he couldn't afford goods at the commissary.
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The cost of fines and fees, of paying into a loved one's commissary account, the cost of bond agents, and of traveling for visitation, make the cost of incarceration for families astronomical in scope and devastating in fact.
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Because inmates are, under Uruguayan law, unable to handle money, their earnings are deposited in a bank account for family savings and expenses, or used on internal purchases like commissary products, warehouse services, the restaurant, bakery, or Marconi's barbershop.
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Immigrants were also told that once they used up basic hygienic supplies, like toilet paper, soap, and toothpaste, they had to purchase more from the commissary — contrary to ICE's detention standards, which state they should be replenished as needed.
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In August, the couple were first spotted dining in New York City, and then they stepped out again for an intimate dinner with her close friends at the Commissary restaurant at The Line Hotel in L.A. on Oct. 21.
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Commissary is usually an alternative option behind bars, but the detention center and/or its food provider charge double what Edwards says he paid while doing time in Oregon, and that makes any supplemental food unattainable for many detainees.
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Read more: From Hershey's bars to hand lotion, here's what wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein purchased in commissary while serving time in FloridaAccording to Courthouse News reporter Adam Klasfeld, Judge Berman previously called these numbers unverified and unaudited.
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The report, which has never been released publicly, found that immigrants were not being given medication for chronic illnesses for days after they arrived and that they were using plastic trash bags to microwave food purchased from the commissary.
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A report released by two nonprofits found that New York state county jails outside of New York City charged inmates an estimated sum of $220006 million in fees a year related to phone calls, commissary products and disciplinary tickets.
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The U.S. senator from Massachusetts also pledged to ban private contractors from charging inmates for routine services such as phone calls, bank transfers and healthcare, and to crack down on the practice of marking up prices for commissary items.
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That meant that over the three and a half years that I was incarcerated, I was able to spend more than $22018,212 on food and toiletries at commissary as well as the social and economic lifeline of phone calls and emails.
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In many prisons, the hourly wage is less than the cost of a chocolate bar at the commissary, yet the waiting list remains long—the programme still pays much more than the $0.12-19903 earned for an hour of kitchen work.
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" We're told the young fan also deposited $2 in Nigg's commissary account ... while another fan slipped him $50 and wrote, "This is my way of saying thank you for standing up for the children that are victims to scumbags like fogle.
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Once a month they have a census count and you have to be on your job detail so you don't get caught out of bounds and written up, which could lead to losing privileges like phone, email, visiting, and commissary.
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Freeman didn't snitch and ended up in a nearby prison, where, as a man with discerning taste in food, he rejected the facility's often-inedible cafeteria meals and usually headed to its commissary, where inmates can purchase packaged foods, instead.
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The other was Christopher M. Tur, a 42-year-old civilian and onetime enlisted Marine who had moved to Guantánamo with his wife and two daughters four years earlier for a job overseeing efforts to prevent shoplifting from the base commissary.
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Photograph by Jessica Pettway for The New Yorker Jajaja opened two years ago, on a corner across from Seward Park, in east Chinatown, lately a hipster food hub that includes Dimes, Mission Chinese Food, Kopitiam, Scarr's Pizza, Kiki's, and Metrograph Commissary.
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Cohen at New York's FCI Otisville: -- President Trump's former personal attorney can also spend $410 at commissary this month after a $50 bump, and he can nosh on holiday cakes, chocolate and caramel clusters, assorted chocolates and an olive salad.
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Prisoners can then use those funds to buy approved items at the facility's commissary or general store, which ultimately turns cans of mackerel, stamps or even Ramen noodles into a form of prison currency that can be used to gamble.
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"It's like Brooklyn — great bones, great old manufacturing buildings, and a great history of artists," said Mr. Stober, whose Sterling Road restaurant, Drake Commissary, became a scene soon after it opened in a huge former pickle factory in June 252.
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"It's like Brooklyn — great bones, great old manufacturing buildings, and a great history of artists," said Mr. Stober, whose Sterling Road restaurant, Drake Commissary, became a scene soon after it opened in a huge former pickle factory in June 252.
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A door on the west side of the building opens to a marble staircase that Groucho Marx, Rudolph Valentino, and Gloria Swanson once descended to dine in the studio commissary, a space that, in 2014, was refurbished into a speakeasy.
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Orange is the New Black, Season Six — July 25 (Netflix) After a three-day riot erupted at Litchfield Prison last season—a riot fortified by commissary drugs, white supremacists, and an inferno of prison records—we were left with a massive cliffhanger.
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" Judge Noelle C. Collins wrote in the preliminary injunction that Hicklin has shown that she would suffer "irreparable harm" if she had to continue living without hormone treatment, hair removal, and women's commissary items, while waiting for the case to be finalized."Ms.
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According to New York Magazine, when Bernie arrived at Butner Medium I, he quickly hired a fellow inmate to start doing his laundry for $8 a month and he'd already started stockpiling his favorite commissary snacks and cultivating a reputation for being stingy.
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We unearthed amazing shots from a prison break in Sweden in the 1970s, and have two fascinating visual-led stories—a photography tour of Jack the Ripper murder locations and a series of envelopes decorated by a prisoner in exchange for commissary.
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We remain concerned low franchisee profits will require ongoing financial support from the company and declining transactions will pressure commissary profits, but in the near-term, investor optimism will likely outweigh these fundamental issues; therefore we believe a Hold rating is appropriate.
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Services like the commissary system, which offers military families access to reasonably priced goods at their local duty stations, must remain available, and we ought to look for other ways to improve the quality of life for our troops and their families.
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Its commissary also sold packs of watercolor paint, not unlike that used by schoolchildren; Mayo would use a toothbrush as a paint brush, a razor blade to contour pieces of paper into sculptures, and powdered milk as glue to hold it together.
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Following the liquidation of Taste's food businesses - Taste Food Franchising Proprietary, Taste Commissary Proprietary and Taste Food Trading 1 Proprietary Ltd - the company will have to fully impair the remaining intercompany loans, with the units valued at about 450 million rand ($27.38 million).
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Ysabel and the other asylum seekers we visit often ask for simple forms of support, such as small deposits into their commissary accounts to let them call relatives or purchase overpriced goods like dry ramen, tampons, shampoo or headphones for watching telenovelas.
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He said that he lost his job with the Walt Disney Company — on the first day — when he stood up in its commissary (with company executives watching) and described how he wanted to make an animated pornographic film starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
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The requirement to go to the off-base grocery store instead of the commissary challenges a young family because of the increased costs and because the store owners speak German, Italian, Japanese, Korean or another language a young person might not know.
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The schedule also allowed for about an hour of "day room" time — to lift weights in the open-air yard, use telephones in a call center or buy food and toiletries in the commissary with money their families added to their prison accounts.
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"Her manager said, 'If she gets in there, I'll never get her out,'" he recalled, and walked through the Astor Room, a restaurant opened in recent years inside the studio's original commissary, where stars like Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino once ate.
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The lead federal public defender in Brooklyn, Deirdre von Dornum, said that many jobs, such as kitchen work, go to men, leaving female prisoners with little to occupy their time, few chances to move around, and less money in their commissary accounts.
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Along with their club nights, Carter and Harkin will also use the space to host listening sessions, film screenings, weekly live concerts co-presented with Le Poisson Rouge, interdisciplinary classes, and a new menu created by chef Henry Rich of Rucola, Fitzcarraldo, and the Commissary.
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The former Mexican cartel kingpin recently filed a motion requesting at least 2 hours of outdoors recreation time per week while he's held in custody at a federal prison in New York, plus access to the general pop commissary so he can buy goodies.
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While serving a 213.88-month sentence in 133 and 213 at a jail in Palm Beach County, Florida, Epstein frequently purchased a slew of sugary snacks through the jail commissary, according to Epstein's order receipts from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office obtained by INSIDER.
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Huffman can buy brand-name toiletries and hair products in the commissaryWhile Huffman will be provided a generic-brand toothpaste, toothbrush, comb, and soap, from the prison, she can buy brand-named items through the commissary, which the Bureau of Prisons has posted online.
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During the intervening years inmates filed more lawsuits against prisons complaining about the health risks they were exposed to due to second hand smoke and in 2004 the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) stopped selling cigarettes and tobacco products to inmates through the commissary.
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Depending on the prison, the guard, and probably his or her mood that day, some inmates are charged $5 or lose access to the commissary, while others are pepper-sprayed or put in the SHU (aka: solitary housing units—more privacy than they bargained for).
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As a result of the liquidation of Taste Food Franchising Proprietary, Taste Commissary Proprietary and Taste Food Trading 1 Proprietary Ltd, the company will have to fully impair the remaining intercompany loans, with the units valued at about 450 million rand ($27.38 million), Taste said.
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GEORGE'S After closing for renovations, the former Astor Room, in the space that was the commissary for Paramount Pictures at the Kaufman Astoria Studios, has been renamed in honor of George S. Kaufman, who founded the studios in 228 and who died last month.
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ICE officially runs Krome but has privatized almost all services, including security, health care, phone and video calling, and the commissary, where detainees are gouged with prices that no one in the free world would pay—about $17 for a tube of toothpaste, for example.
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Here's a breakdown: 4.03 phone minutes, the monthly limit, at 24.0 cents a minute for domestic long-distance calls = $216/month 229,700 monthly minutes of emailing = $135/month Five monthly video visits = $30 Maximum monthly limit at commissary = $360/month That adds up to $588 per month.
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Just over a month after a VICE investigation showed how a $100 annual medical co-pay for Texas inmates is emptying commissary accounts and creating hardship for families without raising serious cash for America's largest prison system, lawmakers are considering doubling that co-pay to $200.
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Mel Brooks, co-writer and director, "Young Frankenstein" (1974) During "Blazing Saddles" I was going to the commissary for lunch one day and Gene [Wilder], who played the [Waco] Kid, was sitting on the street of the Western set, with a yellow legal pad on his knees.
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Paperny said it&aposs important to go into prison with knowledge of how the facility works — incoming inmates should learn when meals take place, how inmates interact with one another, what is and what&aposs not a disciplinary infraction, and how to buy things in the commissary.
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Ken Craft, founder and CEO of the org, tells TMZ ... Alex, a modest donor to the org over the years, recently called requesting a tour of a new shelter being built in North Hollywood ... which will house nearly 85 beds, bathrooms, laundry room and a commissary.
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For instance, "Black and Pink might run a commissary for someone in prison who is HIV-positive who's been unjustly incarcerated, trying to make sure that they are supported throughout their sentence and have enough money to get snacks, get clothes, stuff like that," Grace said.
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In addition to "little or no heating, no or limited hot water, minimal access to electricity, and near total lack of access to certain medical services, telephones, televisions, computers, laundry or commissary"—as well as "noxious fumes"—inmates faced a "near-total cancellation of legal and family visiting".
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Read more: Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers blast 'medieval conditions' at federal jail where he died by suicide and say they are launching their own investigationEpstein also deposited money in other inmates' commissary funds to avoid negative attention, a consultant who regularly speaks with MCC inmates told The New York Times.
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"With 2202 percent of our active duty personnel using the commissary, and with military families and veterans achieving roughly 2628 percent savings in their household purchases, Congress needs to pause and let DOD finish its efforts at studying and reforming this benefit," Inhofe said right before the vote.
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There are many names for these kitchens — commissary, virtual, dark, cloud, or ghost kitchens — but the idea is that restaurateurs can rent out space in them to prepare food that can be delivered through platforms like DoorDash or, yes, UberEats, which was launched during Kalanick's time at the company.
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So officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice developed a novel system: Inmates, they decided, could give away money saved in their commissary accounts; instead of spending their balances on snacks or sneakers, they would be allowed to give a few dollars to the American Red Cross.
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Wilhen Hill Barrientos, a Guatemalan asylum seeker and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against CoreCivic's Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, said that he had to either work for a few cents an hour or go without basic things like soap, which he could get only through the commissary.
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McFarland at Ohio's FCI Elkton: -- Billy's second December behind bars comes with a $50 increase to his commissary spending limit, bringing it to $340 ... and he can chow down on smoked oysters, chocolate covered pretzels, mint crème cookies, peanut log, hazelnut single serve creamer packs and white queso dip.
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Judge Torres held the hearing in Manhattan after a lawyer for one of the defendants, Jose Segura-Genao, complained that his client was living with limited heat and light in the jail, and, because he had no money in his commissary account, could not buy thermal undershirts and underwear.
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Chris Rowzee, a lesbian who served in the Air Force before, during, and after DADT, said she and her partner were afraid to go out in public for fear they would be recognized — even taking different cars to go to the commissary and avoiding public places such as movie theaters.
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Much of the attention came last October when Dave Maass, a researcher at the civil liberties advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation released public records showing that the men were subsequently sentenced to a combined 20 years in solitary confinement, along with the loss of visitation, commissary, and phone privileges.
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On top of the $233,161 she has put in his commissary account so far this year, Ms. Hayes has paid $3,586 in charges for talking to him on the phone when she cannot make the hourlong drive to the prison, and even $280 for emails sent through the prison's email system.
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Jeffrey Epstein, who is charged with sex trafficking, spent $2222.35,2132.27 on commissary items during 212 random days in July, August, and September in 222 while serving a 12.32-month sentence at a jail in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to order receipts from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office obtained by INSIDER.
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At EFordcommissary, which bills itself as "New York State's No. 1 Source for Inmate Commissary!" the category of "Healthy/Nutritious" snacks features three products, all of them Fiber One bars, in the flavors of Streusel, Chocolate, Cinnamon Coffee Cake and a few others, none of them embracing the ethos of the grain bowl.
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For those awaiting imminent deportation, "all we could offer was commissary and moral support in the meantime — like the cup of coffee on the deck of a big ship that's going to sink," said Joanna Brooks, an associate vice president at the university who initiated the campaign, which has grown to 200 volunteers.
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It took petitions from the ACLU and other advocates to make sure that money—which consists of the money inmates pay for the commissary and to make phone calls, and is supposed to go back to the inmates in the form of benefits like gym equipment—actually goes back to the inmates.
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Guzman, who escaped Mexican custody twice before being extradited to the United States for trial in 2017, had requested at least two hours of outdoor recreation per week, access to the main commissary, the ability to buy six bottles of water a week and earplugs to alleviate headaches and ear pain and help him sleep.
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It gives room for a broader view, where you meet the woman who wants a sugar daddy with a rifle in his truck ("Sugar Daddy") or one who reckons with a sordid family history on a turnip farm ("5 Acres of Turnips") or another who wrestles with how to handle an incarcerated relative( "Commissary").
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After lucrative fires, the camp's commissary would be cleaned out and all sorts of prison cooking would emerge: tamales made with Fritos and dried beans, fried rice made with mayonnaise and ramen flavoring packets and the ubiquitous cake, made by mixing powdered coffee creamer with Mountain Dew and adding whatever flavors strike your fancy.
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The gang enriched itself through drug sales, taxes on drugs and even collected a share of purchases on candy bars, deodorant and other items at the jail commissary, the indictment said, adding that the gang was able to exert control by threatening and carrying out violence if people didn't pay up or follow the rules.
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I showed my military ID card at the Shoppette when I filled my first car with gas and then again at the gym, the commissary and the PX. These on-post amenities were created exclusively for service members and their dependents, but as a child I never knew they were unique to my community.
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Just after Ramadan, Major Valentine purchased a frozen leg of lamb at the Navy base commissary — labeled halal for Islam's dietary restrictions — and with permission of the prison commanders gave it as a gift to one of his clients, presenting a particular culinary challenge: It was too big to fit inside the military-issue microwave.
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That's why the food and cocktails are served upstairs in the Commissary restaurant, not delivered to your theater seat, although for the theater you can buy somewhat precious snacks like "Jelly Babies Circa 1918 England" and lemon cayenne water from a lobby shop that owes more to Claes Oldenburg than to your typical popcorn stand.
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In Los Angeles County, Keefe's contract requires that prices fall within 2 percent of the cost of the same item at any three convenience or grocery stores within 12 miles of the central jail; in contrast, Aramark's catalog prices in Santa Clara County are required only to be the same as or lower than the prices in the commissary.
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The bill, titled the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act, is designed to protect the fastest-growing population of inmates in America today, and to help prevent women incarcerated in federal facilities from, say, having to make the devastating choice between calling their kids at night or buying a box of Tampax from the price-hiked commissary.
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"Inmates can receive eyeglasses and books from outside but should buy other things at the commissary inside, such as snacks, coffee, instant noodles, detergent, razors, and towels," said a man surnamed Sohn who runs a private errand service for detainees at the centre and requested that his full name not be used due to the sensitivity of the matter.
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The gang enriched itself through drug sales, taxes on drugs and even collected a share of purchases on candy bars, deodorant and other items at the jail commissary, the indictment said, adding that the gang was able to exert control by threatening and carrying out violence if people didn&apost pay up or follow the rules.
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Read more:L Brands CEO Les Wexner said he 'regretted' crossing paths with Jeffrey EpsteinJeffrey Epstein claims he's worth $559 million in court documentsFrom Hershey's bars to hand lotion, here's what wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein purchased in commissary while serving time in FloridaHere's everything we know about wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged sex-trafficking operation
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We did some digging and found out what some of America's most famous convicts will be fattening up on before their New Year's resolutions ... here's a breakdown of their options: Kelly at MCC Chicago: -- The spending limit for commissary increases by $50 in December to a cool $410, and Kelly can snack on holiday cookies, pound cake, jalapeno cheese and chocolate bars.
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