From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works

When economic freedoms are taken away, informal markets will always find new and ingenious ways to satisfy demand. When Wilbert Rideau was 19, in 1961, he killed a man in a bungled bank robbery.

from Pocket https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/30/prison-economy-informal-markets-alternative-currencies
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