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Prisons Going Smoke-Free - Ohio's prisons are going smoke-free. -- Corrections Director Reginald Wilkinson says he has accepted an study committee's recommendation to ban indoor smoking at all state-run prisons. The indoor-smoking prohibition should be in place within six months.
posted by tekrat to news at 9:06 A.M. EST     (4 Comments)

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Somehow, I can't help but picture a crowd of inmates all hanging just outside the doors to the prison as they smoke away....chatting with the guards who are lighting up too... blocking the entry way and fouling up the air for those passing by...
posted by timault at 11:04 A.M. EST on Thu Mar 24, 2005     #

What will happen to the prison economies, largely driven as they are by the exchange of cigarettes?

Temporarily prison economies could be propped up by the introduction of Nicorette ® patches, but what will replace the ever-present smoke as a medium of exchange?

Would the IMF need to step in and bailout the prison economic systems?
posted by historymike at 08:09 P.M. EST on Thu Mar 24, 2005     #

It's about time. We can barely smoke in bars in Ohio. I think priorities are a little messed up here. They should have banned smoking for prisoners along time before they banned it for free people, in bars or told bar and restaraunt owners how to run their business.
posted by Kmorgan at 05:16 A.M. EST on Fri Mar 25, 2005     #

Temporarily prison economies could be propped up by the introduction of Nicorette ® patches, but what will replace the ever-present smoke as a medium of exchange?


Drugs would be my guess. There is a video of Richard Speck, which still might be found on the internet, smoking a joint, snorting coke, talking about how good he has it in prison, and all from a prison cell.
posted by mike2004 at 07:18 A.M. EST on Fri Mar 25, 2005     #

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