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Quote by: Chancellor  Prisoners are in prison to be punished: why do you presume that they're entitled to engage in behaviors that people who are not prisoners get to engage in? |
lol.... I was waiting for this comment.... and is why I mentioned a relation to the other threads in regards to this.
Since when has smoking become a privilage as this portrays when many considder it a health hazzard? We have so many threads here on how we should increase taxes, drop ads, restrict the sales, etc..... but when it comes to prisoners.... it's now a privilage that they are now restricted from? What kind of logic is this? The Prison gaurds are allowed to smoke, anybody else who works there can smoke, but the prisoners can not?
What I don't understand is there seems to be a lot of distain for criminals for the sake that they are criminals in jail, and some think they shouldn't be allowed to smoke or do anything for that matter. Priosoners still have some limited rights as humans, and I don't see this as a practical punnishment method for prisoners..... and it's clearly not in view of their health, or this would show they don't care about the health of their gaurds, since they are allowed to smoke still.
The thing is, smoking is still a leagal practice and these prisoners are not breaking any laws by smoking.... except now.... and most agreed on the law for not smoking inside..... they're complaining about not being able to smoke outside or anywhere for that matter......
Physical Addictions are not the best thing to cut off cold turkey sometimes.... and if you got a prison full of smokers who all of a sudden can no longer smoke..... I think that might cause them to be a little more.... um..... short tempered, edgy, etc.
If prisoners shouldn't have anything to do recreationally because they are prisoners as some here commented.... and therefore shouldn't be allowed to do things non-ciminals do.... then why not remove the TV's in the lounges, why not just get back to just feeding them bread and water, why even supply them an exercise court or basketball hoops? Why not just keep them in their jail cells until they served their entire sentance?
Plus, this jail in paticular claims that the most of their prisoners are there for minor things and only stay for about three months on average.... so this isn't mostly serious offenders we're talking about.