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by leetcrew 1571 days ago
> The economic networks in prisons are wild, and of course there are incentives for guards to participate.

maybe a naive question, but where does all the money come from? I can understand that prisoners would trade favors and artificially scarce items (eg cigarettes) amongst themselves. but what's in it for the guards? I wouldn't expect a bunch of people that aren't allowed to have jobs to have a ton of cash to throw around.

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Where I was a single letter covered is K2, spice, whatever you want to call it is worth $1500 minimum.The inmate distributing it got $500 of that. Who knows where that $1000 went. And that was for K2, spice, a super crappy drug.
Money comes from outside family and friends.