commissary
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She and her compatriots gather every Sunday outside the Otay Mesa facility to raise money to help detainees buy food in the prison commissary and call their families.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Their extra room became the commissary, to use an old Hollywood term.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
The line to buy food or hygiene products at the commissary was so long that sometimes detainees left empty-handed.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
To make way for the Campus Project, NBCUniversal demolished the old commissary, a sound-mixing facility and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Guys hit him up for his commissary, he admitted to me, and he was stressed by all the noise.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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