tobacco ban
our prison has decided to go through with a tobacco free enviorment for staff and inmates, it starts on march first and i already have seen a spike in tension, i have worked the hole for about a year an a half, me and my partner have always had a firm grip on hole but within the last few weeks the tobacco has been drying up and the animals are restless . i am sure that it will get worse before it gets better. i was wondering if any else has had the same feelings.
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Permalink Reply by J. Peterson (Pete) on -
Our Department is considering a ban, I'm getting set for rock & roll! Lol!
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Permalink Reply by john rardin on -
yesterday was the first time i went the whole shift with out any smokes i was hurting bad the parking lot was my sanctuary at 1000pm
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Permalink Reply by Chris Jones on -
Iowa went smoke free, for inmates and staff alike, on 1 January. So far there hasn't been a whole lot of trouble as a result. Naturally, the tobacco black market is more lucrative than before. Our locked units were always tobacco free, so we aren't seeing a whole lot of difference there.
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Permalink Reply by john rardin on
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well its been a half a month and it seems like its going well. there has been that much of a spike in events. but we are anticipating problems in the future.
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Permalink Reply by David K on -
Tobacco has been banned in my prison for years. It's just like everything else. If they don't have it when they come in, then they won't know the difference. I wasn't working there when the ban came into effect, but I have been told that the "restlessness" calmed down after a few months because so many people come in without it that it soon become a normalcy in the system. Officers are allowed to chew at my prison but no smoking. This is only an issue if there are officers that throw their chew away in trash cans that are accessible to inmates. They will take the chew, dry it out, and use bible paper to roll it with. I have found the best way to dispose of it is in a toilet and then flush it down.
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Permalink Reply by acoblue on -
Here in HI, our jails and prisons went smoke free. Don't know about other facility, but ours is okay. The first few months was edgy, but is okay.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Arsenault on -
Greetings, all. Our facility has been "no tobacco" for a few years. Some of the older inmates talk fondly about the days they could buy cigarettes on commissary. These days they still smoke but their sources are a bit more "creative." I've seen everything from tobacco drops from outsiders (to be picked up by work crews), inmates gathering used chew (thrown away by staff), sympathetic staff (primarily support staff) providing tobacco, attempts to pass it during contact visits, and, of course, people "keestering" or "hooping" it to bring into the jail. We try to clamp down as best we can and we have varied success. For a while, tobacco was so scarce that the inmates were actually using marijuana to buy tobacco! Currently the in-custody value of tobacco at our facility is about $10 for a "real cigarette" or equivalent. In February we intercepted more than $5,000 worth from drops, attempted smugglers and shakedowns.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Busch on -
Our facilities in NM have been smoke free since I began my career a little over a year ago, and for the most part our inmates seem to deal with it okay. However, we still have other issues with finding tobacco and other smoing paraphanalia all the time. I think its good that we don't allow our inmates to smoke, it seems to eliviate many other problems such as fires and inmates using thier lighters as weapons.
But, like I said we find smoking paraphanlia all the time. The best advice I have would be to have the officers who search inmates be more thorough, we all know how creative these guys are when it comes to hiding contraband.
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Permalink Reply by Nancy Strickland on -
I dont know when Texas prisons went tabacco free but it was way before I started working here so I cant imagen taking away ciggs from a bunch of nicotine addicted inmates. I mean atleast I get a 15 min break to run outside and grab a smoke and it tides me over but having the inmates feening would suck. Our offender still get tabacco contraband and youll catch the sent in the dorms but to catch them at it in order to write them up is a little more difficult. About the only way is to be in the catwalk and see it or go by were the smell is and pull out those offenders in the area and search their racks but usulally they try to do it in the back day room or and empty rack.
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Permalink Reply by Georgia_Prison_Captain on -
About 3 weeks ago when Georgia inmates felt the rise in cost for tobacco we had several assaults and thefts. Now alot of our inmates are going smoke free by their own choice so they are not a victim of an ass beating or theft.
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Permalink Reply by john rardin on
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Georgia_Prison_Captain said:About 3 weeks ago when Georgia inmates felt the rise in cost for tobacco we had several assaults and thefts. Now alot of our inmates are going smoke free by their own choice so they are not a victim of an ass beating or theft.
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Permalink Reply by john rardin on
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since wehave started smoke free march1 there has been a steady increase in fights my intell told me his block is dry and my block is bone dry . i believe its much harder for those of us who do use tobacco to stay in check with the new policy
john rardin said:Georgia_Prison_Captain said:About 3 weeks ago when Georgia inmates felt the rise in cost for tobacco we had several assaults and thefts. Now alot of our inmates are going smoke free by their own choice so they are not a victim of an ass beating or theft.
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