N.C. Senate Considers Banning Smoking Inside Prisons

Publication Date: 2005-05-30

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• Publication:WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)

About 70 percent of prisoners in North Carolina smoke. Inmates spend about $3.4 million a year buying cigarettes. And currently, smoking is allowed inside Central Prison, and many prisons restrict smoking to only outside areas.

Senate Bill 1130 would ban smoking inside prisons.

But this soon may all come to an end as the North Carolina Senate considers a bill that would ban smoking inside prisons.

Ultimately, this bill -- Senate Bill 1130 -- aims to ban smoking anywhere on prison grounds.