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| Black market thrives with cig ban |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/20/2007 |
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LANCASTER, CA - There is no if or butt about it: California's ban on tobacco in prisons has produced a burgeoning black market behind bars, where a pack of cigarettes can fetch up to $125. Prison officials who already have their hands full keeping drugs and weapons away from inmates now are spending time tracking down tobacco smugglers, some of them guards and other prison employees. Fights over tobacco have broken out -- at one prison, guards had to use pepper spray to break up a brawl among 30 inmates. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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