 At a jail or prison, commissary or canteen is a store within a correctional facility from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items or snacks. By state law, the commissary money collected by the facility is to be spent to benefit the inmates, such as work release and other programs. Pike County Jailer Freddie Lewis has found a way to double the benefit of the commissary money so that it not only benefits the inmates, but the community as well. If we go and they keep the drugs out of our jail, the fights stay down in our jail, I try to reward our inmates. I started buying outside meals from schools. Any organization in the Pike County school system that wants to do an outside meal, we try our very best to help them. To date, we've gave the Pike County schools right around $179,877.50. We're right at $190,000 that we have put back into the school kids. The inmates enjoy the extra home-cooked meal and it makes them feel good, knowing their money is helping the community. I think it's a really great thing that allowing us to get an extra meal does benefit kids that's either less fortunate or help a really worthwhile program in the school systems. Even though sometimes it may take from our families to send us commissary money that even though it has to go toward us, it can also benefit the community. I think it's awesome that it does. It helps them, it helps us. It's a win-win situation for everybody. If you would like more information on this program, call Brian Ferrell at the Pike County Detention Center at 606-432-6232. Reporting from Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Sean Allen.