I don’t know if anyone watched the Shawshank Redemption recently. Love that film. And Porridge is also being re-run at the moment. I think that prisoners will always find ways to get access to luxuries, there will always be a demand and people will always be willing to barter. Maybe it is now too easy inside now, but you will always get repeat offenders and people who are institutionalised. The old guy from the Shawshank who was let out after having been inside for most of his life, he couldn’t cope on the outside and hung himself.
I don’t know what it would be like to be in prison, and I don’t ever intend to find out. To be locked up with people you may not like for months on end. Would be like being in JC with no way of leaving and no Off button. :)