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by Setrepeoh
on Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:06 am |
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| Beginning August 1, 2009 The Indiana Department of Correction has authorized tobacco products to be used by level 1 offenders in four facilities, Chain O' Lakes, Henryville, Johnson Co, and Plainfield Re entry Educational Facility. This comes after the monies from Government Grants for the Clean Air Act were depleted. It's only a matter of time before all Indiana Correctional Facilities will be smoking again. |
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by gilster
on Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:26 am |
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Good, this will boost morale, quiet violence and cut down the black market selling of cigarettes.
Prohibiting cigarette sales and use in prisons just created an Al Capone atmosphere in the prisons. |
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by Setrepeoh
on Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:15 pm |
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To throw water on this spark of common sense, the present commissary vender has refused to carry tobacco. However, the vending machine company that tends these facilities is interested and is being approached as to carrying the tobacco account on their wholesale license and the merchandise will be handled through the normal handing out of items on commissary day. Not since 1997 has tobacco products been allowed inside Indiana's Correctional Facilities. To make it even harder, the administrations have not permitted staff members to smoke on State grounds, even though Offenders will.
The die hard anti-smoking gestapo agents are gnashing their teeth and desperately trying to instill obsticles at every turn; claiming it will promote black marketing of tobacco products to those offenders who don't have the funds to pay the outrageous cigarette prices.
Since the ban on tobacco inside the Indiana prisons, millions of dollars were spent in overtime, and extra work involved disciplining offenders caught with tobacco, Not to mention the transfering of these smokers to other facilities.
To add insult to injury to the anti-smokers, Governor Mitch Daniels took millions out of the Indiana anti-smoking budget, cutting it by one third. |
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by Pete Gatti
on Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:46 pm |
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Setrepeoh wrote: ...This comes after the monies from Government Grants for the Clean Air Act were depleted...
Just goes to show, without our money to fuel them, anti has far less clout than smokers. |
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by Slearwig
on Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:30 am |
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| Except the State is still collecting cig taxes, right? Is this Act financed by the cig taxes? |
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by garhkal
on Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:47 pm |
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Setrepeoh wrote: To throw water on this spark of common sense, the present commissary vender has refused to carry tobacco. However, the vending machine company that tends these facilities is interested and is being approached as to carrying the tobacco account on their wholesale license and the merchandise will be handled through the normal handing out of items on commissary day. Not since 1997 has tobacco products been allowed inside Indiana's Correctional Facilities. To make it even harder, the administrations have not permitted staff members to smoke on State grounds, even though Offenders will..
Hold the frak on. People in prison for breaking the law are allowed to smoke but those law abiding people working there are not??? That to me looks like a worthy lawsuit to sue the appropriate authorities over. |
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by Setrepeoh
on Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:30 am |
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To be an answer to this question. Indiana Governor, Mitchell Daniels, signed a .50 tax on cigarettes two years ago; claiming it will help pay medical costs. But, nobody has seen this money. Indiana's Governor is the best money can buy when it comes to State services. He privatized medical care for state operated facilities, including prisons. He also privatized the food service after the company,( Aramark), paid into his campaign fund when he ran for office.
Mitchell Daniels also made state employee's who smoke pay an extra $500 on their group insurance costs. He swore he'd never privatize prisons before he was elected. Yet, he privatized the newest facility, (Newcastle, Indiana Correctional Facility), within months after he took office. In turn, the offenders housed there were originally shipped in from Arizona; and after many months of dealing with undertrained staff they rioted. The damage they did was horrendous to the buildings. This governor is the worst Indiana has had since the 1920's. Did I have to mention Mitchell Daniels is a Republican? Cut from the same cloth as George W Bush. |
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