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Missouri to ban smoking in prisons starting April 1 |
By stltoday.com |
Published: 01/02/2018 |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. • The Missouri Department of Corrections will ban smoking in prisons this year. The News Tribune reports that all of the department's facilities will be tobacco-free starting April 1. Staff, offenders, visitors and contractors won't be allowed to possess or use tobacco products inside the facilities. Staff and visitors will be able to smoke in a designated area outside the prisons. The decision comes after an inmate sued the department for suffering health effects from secondhand smoke. A federal jury ruled in September it was cruel and unusual punishment to pair the inmate, who suffers from asthma, with a smoker. Read More. |
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