U.S. Prison Food & Commissary Vendors: 162 State DOC Contracts & Purchases (22 States) + 289 Federal BOP Food Suppliers
451 rows in two parts. (1) 162 contract relationships with state departments of corrections in 22 states (AL, AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, MD, ME, MO, NJ, NM, NY, OK, OR, PA, SD, TX, WA, WV): 17 operators that run food service, commissary or package programs under contract, 142 suppliers that sell food or commissary merchandise to a state prison system, and 3 whose role the source does not state. (2) 289 companies that supplied food to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (contract awards for subsistence, PSC group 89, actions in FY2024-FY2026, net $412.0 million, from USAspending). BOP runs its own kitchens and commissaries, so these are food suppliers, not operators. One row per vendor x contracting agency x service; each row cites the record it rests on. County and city jails are not included. There is no single official list of these contracts, so the state part is not complete.
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* The first 5 rows of the full list (real data).| vendor_name | parent_company | service_category | role | service_detail | contracting_agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aramark Correctional Services, LLC | Aramark | food service | operator | food service management and programming across 27 facilities (food purchasing, inventory, kitchen equipment, food preparation, staffing); transition from December 2025, completion expected March 2026 | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| Aramark Correctional Services, LLC | Aramark | food service | operator | food service for state prisons; replaced Trinity Services Group on 2024-09-30 | Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
| Keefe Commissary Network, LLC | Keefe Group | commissary | operator | commissary: the state prison system's only approved commissary vendor (price agreement with the Department reported in 2025) | Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
| Keefe Group LLC | Keefe Group | commissary | supplier | commissary merchandise supply: paid $31.3 million by the Department's 'Correction Commissaries' account in state fiscal years 2025-2026 (Connecticut Open Expenditures ledger) | Connecticut Department of Correction |
| Hanover Uniform Co. | commissary | supplier | commissary merchandise supply: clothing (multi-vendor contract) | Delaware Department of Correction |
Showing 6 of 20 columns. All columns are listed below.
Full list: 451 rows · CSV · last verified Oct 11, 2026
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Where the source data is published
Every source is free to read: USAspending.gov and its API, Florida FACTS, Indiana's IDOA public contract search, Open Book New York, TDCJ's contract list, the state open data portals of New Jersey, Oregon, Connecticut and Maryland, and the other pages linked in source_url. ReqoData's work is finding and checking the scattered state records, filtering them to prison food and commissary, and aggregating thousands of contract and award records per vendor.
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- 451
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- CSV (UTF-8, opens in Excel)
- Last verified
- Oct 11, 2026
Source data as of
USAspending award data retrieved 2026-10-11 (actions 2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30); state records and open data retrieved 2026-10-11
Last verified is the date we fetched the source data and confirmed it was the latest version the publishers had released.
What this list adds to the free source data
- One CSV for state prison food service and commissary contracts and federal prison food suppliers, one row per vendor x agency x service, with service, role (operator / supplier), contract dates and amounts where published, and the record each row rests on.
- State operators and package-program vendors (17 rows) checked by hand against state contract records (Florida FACTS, Indiana IDOA contract search, Delaware award notice, Maine procurement form, Oklahoma OMES, a West Virginia master agreement), agency pages and announcements, a corrections board presentation, legislative minutes, payment data, a federal court order and news reports; key phrases re-checked on each cited page on 2026-10-11.
- State suppliers drawn from official contract and spending data: New York's DOCCS contracts in Open Book New York (83 vendors, aggregated from 729 commissary/food contract records ending 2025-01-01 or later, filtered from all 4776 DOCCS contract records fetched), TDCJ's list of contracts of $100,000+ (Texas), New Jersey's agency purchasing data (food sectors), Oregon's agency expenditures (food and kitchen supplies), plus Connecticut and Maryland payment data.
- BOP part: 289 companies from 13568 USAspending award records (BOP, award types A-D, PSC group 89, actions 2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30), aggregated per recipient with award count, net obligations, earliest start, latest end, the three largest award IDs and the registered city/state.
- Labels the kind of evidence and its date on every row, and adds the corporate group where a source states it (Keefe Group; Aramark, including Union Supply Group) or USAspending records a parent.
Limitations and what's not included
- Not complete. State rows cover 22 states. Checked without finding a usable record: California (CDCR is not in Open FI$Cal; its quarterly package vendors are 'approved', which CDCR says is not a contract), Illinois and South Carolina (transparency sites refused automated access), Michigan (michigan.gov refused automated access), Ohio (Ohio Checkbook's robots.txt disallows all crawling and no other permitted record naming ODRC's food service or commissary contractor was found), Wisconsin (robots.txt disallows all crawling), North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Minnesota and Kansas (transparency or DOC sites did not respond, or no record naming a contractor was found), Tennessee (only a 2016 food service award was found), Vermont and Oklahoma's 2025 canteen award (sites did not respond; Vermont's payment data is under a share-alike licence and was not used), and the other states not listed in jurisdiction. Not finding a record does not mean a state has no contractor; many states run food service and commissary themselves.
- Role: 'operator' means the vendor runs the food service, the commissary or a package program under contract; 'supplier' means it sells food or merchandise to a prison system that runs the service itself; 'unclear' means the source (a payment or contract-search record) does not state the scope. A vendor can be an operator in one state and a supplier in another.
- Supplier rows from data cover only what each state publishes: New York contracts ending 2025-01-01 or later whose description mentions commissary/resale or whose type is groceries/food services; TDCJ's current list of contracts of $100,000+ (food classes or 'inmate consumption'); New Jersey food-sector purchasing of $50,000+ in FY2025-FY2026; Oregon 'Food and Kitchen Supplies' expenditures of $100,000+ in FY2025 (that class also includes kitchen supplies). Amounts are as published and are not comparable across states (contract amounts, purchasing and payments differ).
- Several rows rest on weaker evidence, labelled in evidence_type: Arizona (news reports; the Arizona procurement and ADCRR pages block automated access), Missouri (the Department's web page linking to Aramark contract jobs, and a 2023 news report), West Virginia food service (the plaintiffs' complaint and Aramark's motion as described in a federal court order), Indiana (contract-search records that do not state the scope), Connecticut and Maryland (payment records only).
- Contract dates are given only where the source states them. A contract can end, be extended or be re-awarded after the evidence date.
- BOP rows are food suppliers, not operators. In May 2026 BOP published requests for information (market research, not a solicitation) about outsourcing food service and commissary operations; no such contract has been awarded, so none is listed.
- BOP rows include every PSC group 89 (food) award, so a few vendors appear for items such as inmate holiday bags, and a few vendors whose business is not food appear because an award was coded PSC 89. contract_start/contract_end span all of a vendor's awards with an action in the window, so an old long-running award can make contract_start years earlier than FY2024. USAspending data can be revised and recent actions can be reported late.
- Excluded: BOP recipients with zero or negative net obligations in the window, recipients recorded as sole proprietorships or individuals without a legal-entity designator, names that look like a person's name, government entities (counties, state agencies, Federal Prison Industries) and, in the state data, vendors below the thresholds above.
- Organization-level data only: no contact persons, phone numbers or e-mail addresses, even where a cited document shows them. vendor_city/vendor_state come from the cited record and may be a branch or remit-to address rather than the headquarters. Websites are given only where ReqoData opened the site and it named the company.
- Delivered as a CSV file. No API, no updates after delivery.
Where the source data is published
Every source is free to read: USAspending.gov and its API, Florida FACTS, Indiana's IDOA public contract search, Open Book New York, TDCJ's contract list, the state open data portals of New Jersey, Oregon, Connecticut and Maryland, and the other pages linked in source_url. ReqoData's work is finding and checking the scattered state records, filtering them to prison food and commissary, and aggregating thousands of contract and award records per vendor.
Organization info only. The list contains no personal contact details of individuals.
Columns in the CSV (20)
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| vendor_name | Vendor's name as written in the cited record (state rows) or the recipient name in USAspending (BOP rows). |
| parent_company | Corporate group, filled only where a cited source states it: Keefe Group (keefegroup.com), Aramark (Aramark Correctional Services; Union Supply Group per a CSPI letter of 2026-06-08 and a 2026 federal court order describing the plaintiffs' allegation), or for BOP rows the parent recipient that USAspending records when it differs from the vendor. |
| service_category | commissary, food service, or both. |
| role | operator = runs the food service, commissary or a package program for the agency under contract; supplier = sells food or commissary merchandise to an agency that runs the service itself (all BOP rows); unclear = the source does not state the scope. |
| service_detail | What the vendor provides, with the scope stated in the source (food service management, commissary operation, package program, commissary merchandise supply, food supply). |
| contracting_agency | State department of corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons. |
| jurisdiction | Two-letter state code, or US-FED for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. |
| contract_reference | Contract or solicitation number(s) when the source gives them; for aggregated rows the number of records and the largest ones. |
| evidence_type | Kind of record the row rests on: state contract record or list, award notice, agency page or announcement, board presentation, legislative minutes, purchasing/payment/expenditure records, federal court order, news report, or USAspending award records. |
| evidence_date | Date of the cited record, or the date ReqoData read a live page or dataset that carries no date. |
| contract_start | Start date stated in the source (YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD). For aggregated rows: the earliest start among the vendor's records. |
| contract_end | End date stated in the source. For aggregated rows: the latest end. Empty when not stated. |
| record_count | Aggregated rows only: number of contracts or awards behind the row (BOP: PSC 89 awards with an action 2023-10-01 to 2026-09-30). |
| amount_usd | Amount in USD where the source gives one; its meaning is in amount_basis (BOP net obligations, New York contract amounts, New Jersey purchasing, Oregon expenditures). Not comparable across states. |
| amount_basis | What amount_usd measures and for which period. |
| vendor_city | City of the vendor's address in the cited record (state rows) or the recipient's registered address in USAspending (BOP rows). It can be a branch or remit-to address, not necessarily the headquarters. Empty when the source gives none. |
| vendor_state | State of that address. |
| website | Company website, only where ReqoData opened the site and it named the company. Empty for most supplier rows. |
| source_url | Page, record or dataset query the row was checked against (for BOP rows the vendor's USAspending recipient page). |
| last_verified | Date ReqoData last checked the row against its source. |
Sources and licenses
- USAspending.gov API - spending_by_award, spending_by_category/recipient and recipient endpoints (Federal Bureau of Prisons, PSC group 89)U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105)
- Office of the New York State Comptroller - Open Book New York contract search (DOCCS)State public record; facts only
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice - contracts of $100,000 or more (100K_Contract.xlsx)State public record; facts only
- New Jersey YourMoney Agency Purchasing (data.nj.gov, ubnu-tqu7)State open data; no licence stated (attribution: Division of Purchase and Property)
- Oregon Agency Expenditures - Multi-Year Report (data.oregon.gov, y9g9-xsxs)Public Domain U.S. Government (as stated on the dataset)
- State of Connecticut Open Expenditures - Ledger Current (data.ct.gov, ajdm-rvz7)Public Domain (as stated on the dataset)
- State of Maryland Payments Data FY2008-FY2024 (opendata.maryland.gov, 7syw-q4cy)State open data; facts only
- Indiana Department of Administration - public contract searchState public record; facts only
- Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System (FACTS) - Department of Corrections contracts C3025 and C3021Florida public record (Chapter 119, F.S.); no reuse restriction stated
- Delaware Department of Correction - Award Notice DOC23502-COMMISSARYState public record; facts only
- Maine Office of State Procurement Services - procurement justification form (Keefe Commissary Network)State public record; facts only
- Oklahoma OMES solicitation 1310004349 and Oklahoma DOC newsroomState public record; facts only
- Kentucky General Assembly - Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary minutes, 2026-08-05State public record
- South Dakota Corrections Commission presentation, 2025-12-03State public record; facts only
- State DOC web pages, announcements and contract documents (Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Washington)State public records; facts only
- West Virginia Agency Master Agreement DCR2200000027 (copy published by the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy)State public record; facts only
- U.S. District Court, S.D. W. Va. - Smith v. Aramark Corp., No. 2:25-cv-00710, memorandum opinion and order (2026-08-19), copy published by NCLCCourt record; facts only
- News reports used for facts only: Prison Journalism Project (Arizona, 2025), The Beacon (Missouri, 2023); CSPI letter on BOP market research (2026-06-08)Cited for facts only; no text reproduced
Last verified: Oct 11, 2026
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