Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated
The Appeal's 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.
Focus: Too many tractors: As boom times fade, farm equipment piles up
Falling crop prices are leaving agriculture equipment sellers with an excess of unsold tractors and combines. To cope with the surplus, dealers are discounting machines, suspending new orders, and even auctioning off equipment at reduced prices.
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