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| Brief Stays Can Smoke At OK Prisons |
| By uk.reuters.com |
| Published: 07/27/2010 |
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(Reuters Life!) - A ban on smoking in prison will be lifted for inmates at Oklahoma's minimum-security facilities next month over the objections of a state legislator who is also a doctor. "We're short-staffed. Do we want to spend time chasing tobacco around the yards?" Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said. One consideration for allowing only prisoners in Oklahoma's minimum-security prisons to resume smoking is that most will serve out their shorter sentences before long-term health problems show up and create an added expense, Massie said. "Unlike the medium or maximum (security prisons) where inmates stay for years and years and years, the health factors would not be quite as significant for people who are processed through the system fairly quickly," Massie said. Read More. |
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