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| Georgia prisons ordered to kick smoking |
| By gainesvilletimes.com |
| Published: 01/18/2010 |
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The smokers among Georgia’s nearly 60,000 prison inmates will soon have to snuff out their cigarette butts for good. Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens has ordered all state prisons smoke-free by the end of the year, with the first three prisons instituting bans this month. It’s a move that has been tried in the past and comes after most of Georgia’s county jails have been smoke-free for years. In Hall County, jail inmates at the 1,000-bed lockup on Barber Road aren’t allowed to smoke, unlike their neighbors at the Hall County Correctional Institution, who are permitted smoke breaks outside in the morning and before dinner and can also smoke outdoors on work details when allowed by the guards supervising them. Warden Avery Niles said the facility, which houses state inmates, likely will go smoke-free along with the state prisons. Read More. |
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