[Throughline] The Prison Captive Market: Commissary, Phone Calls, and the Business of Selling to People Who Cannot Leave

Before there was a prison commissary there was the company store, and the company store is where the arithmetic was first worked out.

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[Throughline] The Prison Captive Market: Commissary, Phone Calls, and the Business of Selling to People Who Cannot Leave

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