How money works in prison? Do you have your own bank account?

Question

How money works in prison? Do you have your own bank account?

In: 10

Answer 1

If you are talking about how you buy things “legally” with in a prison, it varies but most in the USA at least you do have an account. You can work in the prison to earn money, someone on the outside can put money in your account or you can transfer money from an outside account to your prison account. This is the only legal way to buy things in the prison. As far as “illegal”, different prisons have different forms of currency (canteen items or something).