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commissary

[kom-uh-ser-ee] / ˈkɒm əˌsɛr i /
NOUN
deputy
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Men would also scroll YouTube videos, partake in online sports betting and convince women on the outside to date them, sometimes seemingly to get those women to wire money into their commissary accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

According to contemporaneous accounts, German prisoners of war in U.S. camps were sometimes offered Cokes at the commissary.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Bardelli published a research article in 2022 about inequality within prison commissary stores.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Marshals Service on Johnson’s behalf, scheduling a phone call with Johnson, as well as making sure there was money provided on his behalf in the prison commissary.

From Slate May 28, 2026

The next fifteen were: —CO, would you call to check the money in my commissary account?

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The officer said he wasn’t aware of the change but that the vendor is Keefe Group, which supplies commissaries at prisons and immigrant detention centers across the country.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Public grocery stores already exist in the form of commissaries on military bases.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

Pennsylvania’s contract for $50 million with GTL includes a 22.5 percent kickback from the sale of music, e-messaging, games, e-books, and deposits into people’s prison bank accounts—called commissaries.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2024

Per the WSJ video, the commissaries have already started working with Warabeya, a supplier to 7-Eleven Japan.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2024

They stated, furthermore, that they were not being paid in real money but in scrip, which was good only to buy Virginia ham in the company commissaries.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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