The Return of the Prison Poker Game

The Return of the Prison Poker Game

The tobacco bans that Georgia Department of Corrections implemented in 2010 changed the way things were done here, the way the COVID-19 pandemic did a decade later. One of the early effects was that prison gambling faded almost out of existence. Once the price of a pack of cigarettes hit $50, it was no longer a worthwhile hustle to go to the trouble of hosting a poker game; there weren’t enough people who could afford to play. But gambling never…