2000 Dong Bo La Detention Center

Trại tạm giam Bố Lá, operated under the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, issued scrip for internal use within its detention facility. These prison canteen notes — allowing detainees to purchase approved goods without handling state currency — followed a practice common across Vietnamese detention infrastructure in the reform-era prison system, though individual facility issues are rarely documented in mainstream catalogs.

The 1999 date places this squarely in the period following Đổi Mới economic liberalization, when the state detention system increasingly shifted toward self-financing models. Surviving examples are almost entirely absent from Western collections.