While 40% of the EBF revenue must come from vending machines and prison employee commissaries, data in the IG report shows that prison officials have routinely fallen short of that. In fiscal year 2012, for instance, EBFs reported total revenues of $711,125, and only 25% of that, or $180,127, came from the vending machines and commissaries. For each fiscal year after that through 2017, the vending machine and commissary revenues hovered between 20% and 30%, the data show.
