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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.

Former inmate Jorge Renaud remembers how the purchases he made from the prison commissary, little things like toothpaste and deodorant, made life in a cell, often with another prisoner, a little less ...

Attorneys and campaigners have accused private detainee lockups of charging high prices for goods such as soap to lure inmates into taking jobs that pay as little as $1 a day. Lean provisions ...

Those basics can add up. Reuters viewed a copy of the center’s commissary price list. It shows detainees are charged $11.02 for a 4 oz. tube of Sensodyne toothpaste, available on Amazon.com for $5.20.

The plan was to go high tech. With a touch of the button, Miami-Dade county jail inmates could use an ATM-like machine to buy toothpaste or snacks, and even file a complaint against the jailers. But ...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice. He could content himself with a jailhouse diet ...