NCJ Number
142255
Date Published
1991
Length
89 pages
Annotation
This collection of resources devoted to no-smoking policies in correctional facilities outlines the reasons for the no-smoking policies, strategies for successful implementation, problems encountered, and penalties for infraction; considers legal issues and legal opinion; and reviews the no-smoking policies of correctional facilities in Hillsborough County, Florida and Dane County, Wisconsin.
Abstract
The American Correctional Association adopted a resolution in January 1990 in support of those jurisidctions which have implemented no-smoking policies in their correctional facilities and work environments. Two recent federal appeals court cases (1990 and 1991) ruled that inmates' involuntary exposure to secondary tobacco smoke may be cruel and unusual punishment. These rulings essentially reverse decisions in the past two years that found that inmates do not have a right to be free from "environmental tobacco smoke." Health is the most important reason for jails implementing no-smoking policies.