Ramen noodles supplanting cigarettes as currency among prisoners

Monday, August 22, 2016 - 08:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Ramen noodles are supplanting the once popular cigarettes as a form of currency among state prisoners, but not in response to bans on tobacco products within prison systems, finds a new study. Instead, study author Michael Gibson-Light, a doctoral candidate in the University of Arizona School of Sociology, found that inmates are trying to figure […]

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