As the United States struggles with persistent inflation, imprisoned people have reported rising prices for essential items they can ill afford on wages that are often less than a dollar a day.“The prices have increased dramatically,” Dortell Williams, a man imprisoned at Chuckawalla State Prison in southern California, told Al Jazeera in a recent phone call. “And the reason we’re given is, ‘When prices go up on the outside, they go up on the inside’.”For Williams, that means the price of a tube of toothpaste has leapt from $3.65 to $6. Ramen noodles have spiked from 25 to 45 cents. Williams estimates the cost of many items has nearly doubled in the two-year period since November 2020.
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