Cash Book review observations:
--- Cigarettes, banned in many jails today, were a major purchase items back then. --- Phone calls, candy, toiletries constituted major inmate expenditures then as now. --- Newspapers were major purchase item then; today they are available free in day rooms. --- Hand written  records of inmate purchases, a combination of sales slips and ledger entries, sufficed in the era before bar codes and PCs.  --- Whereas a major city jail would have its own commissary, the tiny rural jail apparently bought items locally for inmate as requested.
Cash Book review observations:
--- Cigarettes, banned in many jails today, were a major purchase items back then.
--- Phone calls, candy, toiletries constituted major inmate expenditures then as now.
--- Newspapers were major purchase item then; today they are available free in day rooms.
--- Hand written  records of inmate purchases, a combination of sales slips and ledger entries, sufficed in the era before bar codes and PCs.
 --- Whereas a major city jail would have its own commissary, the tiny rural jail apparently bought items locally for inmate as requested.