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The Cellblocks’ Amazon.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/sendapackage-bills-itself-as-new-yorks-inmate-superstore.htmlA couple of weeks ago, a street team from Sendapackage.com was standing on a sidewalk near Columbus Circle in Manhattan talking with a dozen women about to board a charter bus that would take them upstate to visit their relatives in prison. It was 10 p.m. and many of the women huddled in the darkness were toting sleepy children; most were also burdened with plastic bags of Pop Tarts, pretzels, cookies and potato chips — junk food unavailable to men behind bars.
