Originally Posted by
Greenie
Banning tobacco from prisons has created many problems - black market contraband - a tobacco cigarette costs more than a reefer here in Maine. Inmates caught with tobacco have their sentences extended which costs taxpayers. A common sense solution would be to let the inmates smoke - they're all adults with bigger Jones than tobacco to conquer.
Oh no....what about the non smoking prisoners and guards who would be subjected to such a dangerous atmosphere. If we cannot smoke in bars, or buildings of any kind, including private businesses, cannot smoke in the parks, etc, the the criminals should not be allowed rights the general public has had taken away. The same arguments that say you cannot smoke in a bar extend into the prisons....
"Illegal Immigrant" is not a race....
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~John Adams