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| All GA Prisons Tobacco Free, State Agencies To Follow Suit |
| By gainesvilletimes.com |
| Published: 10/28/2010 |
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Hall County's landfill and compactor sites will go smoke-free Monday, banning tobacco use for all staff, employees, visitors and customers. Because the Solid Waste Division uses inmates for a labor force, the idea is to extend an initiative started at the county's Correctional Institution in September for smokers to extinguish their cigarettes once and for all. "With the fact that we do utilize inmate labor, we decided to move forward and support what our CI did," said Cary Lawler, the county's solid waste manager. "There are also obvious hazards at compactor sites when you have potential fire and the material we take in on a daily basis." Under a statewide initiative started in January, Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens ordered all prisons to be tobacco-free by the end of the year. It's a policy change that has been tried in the past and comes after most of Georgia's county jails have been smoke-free for years. Read More. |
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