Fish and Stamps are New Prison Currency

Holy Mackerel. And stamps. And coffee are now the most prized valuables in prison. Might come in handy for people like jailed hacker wannabe Byron Sonne who doesn’t look to be getting out any time soon.

From Wired here:

Inmates in federal penitentiaries aren’t allowed to have actual money; family members can load up prison commissary accounts, which usually max out at about $300 a month, but the money’s not transferable and can be redeemed only at the commissary. And cigarettes, the former gold standard for securing everything from a bodyguard to starched laundry, have all but disappeared since tobacco was banned at federal pens in 2004.

So this article, along with this one here about surviving prison might be just what the G20 anarchist in jail needs.