Every day, cannabis prisoners struggle to afford basic necessities like nutritious food, hygiene products, and phone calls home due to low wages. In fact, the average wage in prison is between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour and with such minimal earnings, an inmate has to work for over 3 hours at the maximum average wage to afford a pouch of Bumblebee Tuna Fish or over 1 hour for a Forever stamp (see the sample commissary sheet below). Because inmate wages are so low, families — already facing financial hardship — must step in to support their loved ones, contributing to the $2.9 billion spent annually on commissary accounts and phone calls. More than half of these families are forced into debt to cover these costs.

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