commissary

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The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

The “kitty” is then resold, creating a secondary market within the jails that is cheaper than the commissary.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 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

Whatever money is left over after the blazes Lewis plans to put toward scholarships for formerly incarcerated firefighters or divvy up and donate to individual prisoners’ commissary accounts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

He gets paid about fifty-three cents a day, which he can use at the prison commissary to buy toothpaste, snacks, stamps, and other miscellaneous items.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore