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Fort Dodge prison cuts out smoking
By WILLIAM PETROSKI • [email protected] • July 31, 2008
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Inmates at the Fort Dodge state prison will have their cigarette supply permanently cut off Friday, and they won't be doing any more puffing after Nov. 1.
Warden Cornell Smith has dodge neon transmission declared he is fed up with convicts breaking rules by smoking in their cells, hot-wiring electrical for sale dodge diesel 4x4 outlets to light cigarettes and tossing tobacco butts outside their units. So he's accelerating dodge hemi sport the state's plans to convert how to build dodge ram speakerbox the prison into a tobacco-free facility.
"I dodge durango tail lights realize this will be a difficult habit the dodge boys white hats s to stop, but we will get through it," Smith said in a memo last week to the replacing dodge stealth egr valve Fort Dodge prison's 1,100 inmates.
The Iowa Department of Corrections said in May that all of Iowa's prisons will become tobacco-free in January. State legislators had exempted prisons from a law that went into effect July 1 that bans smoking in most public places. But dodge dealers listing minnesota prison officials said they are concerned about rising health care costs and believe banning smoking will help reduce those bills.
Under Smith's plan, dodge cab and chasis offenders carbone dodge new york won't be allowed to order any more tobacco products from the prison commissary, effective Friday. As of Nov. 1, all tobacco will be considered contraband and subject to disciplinary action. Smoking cessation classes will be offered starting in August.
Smith previously wrote to inmates on Feb. 7, warning them to quit dodge caravan no high beams smoking in their cells and citing dodge street rod other tobacco-related problems.
"There was no decrease of violations, and this type of behavior is unsafe here at the institution," Smith said in last week's memo.
Prison spokesman Fred Scaletta said Wednesday there are no plans to accelerate the dodge manual transmission smoking ban at other dodge big block crate engines state prisons.
Correctional facilities at dodge chargers Clarinda, Oakdale and Mount Pleasant are already tobacco-free, but smoking is still allowed at prisons in Fort Madison, Mitchellville, Rockwell City, Anamosa and Newton.
Jeff Draper, dodge caravan automatic transmission 54, a Fort Dodge inmate serving time for dodge ram truck recall drug convictions, said he transmission light on dodge van objects to the tobacco ban.
"It isn't about smoking. The issue is about personal dodge obd2 codes liberty and the rights guaranteed to our citizens by our Bill of Rights," Draper said.
Scaletta said correctional officials can administratively prohibit inmates from smoking. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, with more than 200,000 inmates, has been smoke-free since 2004, a federal spokesman said.
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