New Database of Commissary Pricing

Attention immprofs who are researching/writing on issues related to immigration detention.  The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization, has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. They’ve written up some of their findings in a piece called Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated.

Given that immigration detention facilities routinely outsource commissary services (see here and here), this database may be rich for future research.

-KitJ