music bands that we dug so I'd maximize that format and order the longest CDs when possible so he'd have the most music to listen to (so either compilation best of collections and/or chunky album runs w/bonus tracks by old faves such as Ramones, Pistols, Clash, Runaways/Joan Jett, Plasmatics, Germs, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, plus I'd throw in then-more recent stuff like Monster Magnet, Kyuss, Bikini Kill, Hole, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Distillers). Securepak's CD selection at the time was surprisingly wide open as far as musical genres they must've had some cool music distributors because they had most all the great punk, hardcore, etc.
friend was a musician / music lover as well so I also made sure he had a Discman personal CD player which also received radio on it so he could access that part of outside world as well.
Gonna reminisce here, pay no mind: during the 1990 and some 2000s, via quarterly mail-order packages, I made sure my incarcerated friend in Northern California had a see-thru clear plastic personal television set w/headphones he was a television freak all his life and had many television loves much of the time, he'd have a solo cell television was his window t the outside world. That's wild there's a $160 spending cap where you are when I used to order from Securepak for a friend who was imprisoned in California, it was by WEIGHT TOTAL, so at check-out you'd be adding or subtracting a soup (Ramen noodles) to maximize the qp, especially after a bonus free item picked would add additional weight to the final, like the Jack Link's sausage kit or the free chips which take up lots of room
It might be just a few personal care items and the rest foodstuff