Commerce

While most commerce within prisons revolves around food and hygiene products, a recent report found that digital sales are the "future of commissary."

• By Mia Armstrong

The special incentives that governments have offered companies like Amazon to move their operations into new states are controversial at best and illegal at worst.

• By Sarah Holder

The most important reads from our coverage of black markets, tech surveillance, and more.

• By Max Ufberg

A boy collects used plastic bottles to be sold at a junk shop at Divisoria market in Manila, Philippines, on November 29th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff