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There's also the fact that Jutting might not be able to get hold of drugs to take into consideration. He was described in court as being "deeply addicted to cocaine", snorting three grams a day, so presumably a drugless life will be a difficult one for him to adapt to.Toner told me that although it might seem to the untrained eye as if Hong Kong's prisons are drug free, he wasn't so sure. "At the start, you think there's none, and then once you're in there for a while you see things happening," he said. He claimed there were obvious signs of staff being in cahoots with powerful Chinese inmates, and hinted that he suspected they might have been bringing drugs in.Brandner told me that high-security prisons of the type that Jutting will serve his sentence in if he remains in Hong Kong are virtually drug-free because all visits are conducted through a glass screen. He said that drugs have only been detected on rare occasions, and that the punishments for being caught with them are severe.So will there be any other recreational activities? Presumably a drug-free Rutting will want to find other ways of passing the time. According to Brandner, inmates serving long sentences are allowed an hour of football or basketball and an hour of walking in a courtyard every other day. In the UK, prisoners are supposed to be given at least half an hour's exercise each day, so Rutting might be better off in Hong Kong in this respect. Inmates in Hong Kong also have access to a table tennis table during their recreation time, and sometimes get to use weightlifting equipment. In the UK, most prisoners have access to the gym at least once a week.
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