Prisoners forced to play computer games for profit

A prison in Northeast China embroiled in allegations of jailhouse sex is now being accused of forcing prisoners to take part in computer games for profit and helping them to commit fraud.

Prison officers are also accused of arranging for women to visit prisoners, providing them with alcohol and mobile phones and giving food privileges to favored inmates.

"The prison authority bought 250 computers in 2006 and forced prisoners to play online computer games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money," a guard who worked at Nehe Prison in Nehe, Heilongjiang province, said on condition of anonymity.