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Prison life has its own informal economy. Even behind bars, money talks. Where there’s a will, there’s generally a way.
In The Business of Crime, VICE World News looks at different parts of the criminal economy, separating fact from myth. In this episode, we find out the reality of the prison economy from drug smuggling to ramen trading.
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