Can someone please tell us how a government entity with a budget of 1.7 BILLION dollars annually, can bounce checks to companies in the greater Phoenix area? Fundraisers are something the residents look forward to, because it’s a way to supplement the meager offerings of the commissary.

Let’s just take one example, but there are so many others….Sally’s Beauty Supply. This was the main source African Americans had for ethnic hair products. The girls would scrimp and save for this event. Sally’s got burnt too many times by DOC’s rubber checks, so they bounced the DOC! No more Sally’s:-( According to a staff source, he alleges the DOC now has to go farther and farther out from Phoenix to find vendors that will deal with prison fundraisers.

COSTCO will take the prison debit card (no check) but will wait up to 2 months to fill the order. Residents have written in that fundraisers are not nearly as good as they once were, and take twice as long. There is one thing that is a constant, however……. the prison takes the inmate’s money as fast as they can.