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.