Comment: It is not just convicted prisoners.

Those who sit and wait for trial - "presumed innocent" still - are cut off from all outside contact, including their attorney, unless they can pay $11 per phone call (locally.) They must buy their own shampoo, combs, tampons! - from the privately owned commissary. To have money to spend at the commissary cost me $15 to set up the account and to put $40 on her phone card cost me $6. They have set up a monopoly where they can extract free labor from prisoners and cash from people who love them. I cannot even drop off a book - I can only ship new books direct from the publisher. Again, this was trying to interact with a prisoner BEFORE TRIAL.