Prisoners, despite being behind bars, have thought of ingenious ways to continue their gambling habits.
The Correctional Services Department claims that in search operations in cells they were able to find items for gambling, football and horseracing betting slips, reports The Standard.
A prison officer claimed that prisoners had creatively made their own mahjong tiles and poker cards as well as dice and chess pieces. The dice were made from bread given to them at breakfast mixed with soapy water turning it into putty in which they shaped into a dice.
Bets involving 6,658 packets of cigarettes were seized which would cost HK$1 million on the black market.
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