They family had to have been always plugged. That shyt is good money if you’re in the right circles but you’d have to have some weight behind your name.
25% is a blessing, hell I was killin em off of 2 for 1s mostly on the poker table. If a nikka won right away I’d get 3 dollars for every 2 lent and if I had to wait until commissary it was 2 dollars for every 1. After fukkin with some cats long enough you’d give em plays but it was always a win win for me. Obviously jail house shyt but it got to the point where I was paying nikkas to store shyt in their box and I wasn’t even spending money being sent in. Sometimes nikkas would just have their people send my people straight cash or just put in on my books.
I say that to say if that hustle was lucrative in there, think of how much a person could cash out in the free world with exponentially more cash flow. Yea you’d be dealin with degenerates and have the same issues that come with servin but I can see why the old man was as caked up as he was