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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  Violent, non-violent, part-time or life sentence makes no damn difference.
These people have a right to smoke if they smoked the day they walked through the door, it was allowed before, and they are paying for the smokes themselves. |
They're prisoners in the custody of the state in facilities funded by the taxpayers: why should they be allowed to engage in behaviors that non-prisoners are allowed to engage in? Prisons are supposed to be punitive (we all know that there is no rehabilitation going on in those places). Since when do prisoners have the right to be treated like the prison staff?
I wonder if the province of Quebec has a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars or other indoor public places (like New York State has). If citizens who have not committed crimes are prohibited from smoking in such places, why should prisoners be allowed to smoke in facilities paid for by the taxpayers?