have you ever been to prison? it is a tough life in there. no matter what you did or whether you were wrongly accused for something, prison is not for everyone. it is obviously lonely as you gets separated away from your family. it can get boring, not being able to do what you want.
but gambling, even tho is prohibited, is often what entertains most prisoners. there is no actual money in prison so they often exchange in other forms of currencies like food or smuggled items. even their way of gambling is smuggled. cards, dice and even information from the outside are all smuggled.
the reason why gambling is prohibited tho is because it might escalate into fights if someone for example loses and doesn't pay their debts
just shows how gambling will always exist anywhere
In my country I doubt the people in a prison called “oko prison” would have the luxury of time to actually gamble, it’s among one of the worse prisons in the country where people are packed into a single cell with no space to breathe and nothing to do.
I have never been there, so I can’t be too sure but with the videos I have seen and the way the prisoners were behaving when they saw the visitors that came to pray there it became obvious that these sets of individuals were actually being treated poorly. So gambling might not even cross their mind except they badly want to kill their boredom.