Strange but True

Staff
Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. (AP) _ Inmates in Michigan’s prisons will have to pay for their own caffeine fix next month.

In an effort to save $250,000 this year, state officials are cutting off the supply of free coffee to inmates at state prisons and people in boot camps and correctional centers.

Corrections Department spokesman Russ Marlan said inmates can still buy instant coffee at prison stores, but he didn’t know how much they charge. The cost-saving effort begins after March 1.

“We’re looking at everything that can reduce costs without jeopardizing public safety,” Marlan said Monday. “There is no nutritional value to coffee.”

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