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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

When a man from the commissary ran in with an order to evacuate the building, Blaschum went upstairs to find her flying partners.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The detainees requested a review of commissary pricing by facility leaders, a comparison of prices with prison industry standards, an immediate reduction in prices of essential items and the implementation of reasonable price caps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Cash for the commissary, are you mad? I asked for rolls and coffee, not a jewel-encrusted egg! Don’t you know who we are? We are the Babushkinovs! Our name is all the credit we need!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Prisons run by state and federal governments contract out many services to private firms — like health care, transport, meals, telecommunication, commissaries and uniforms.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

What you had in the beginning were these expensive to operate commissaries that were giant, occupying valuable real estate in New York City.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2022

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