A policy governing smoking in Cayman prison will be implemented in phases beginning in September.
Prison Director Dwight Scott said there will be a no smoking policy in passages on all living units.
Smoking will for now be permitted at least 10 feet away from those areas.
At the moment, prisoners can smoke in their cells.
The ultimate goal is for the prisons to be totally smoke free by 2014.
This includes a no smoking policy for staff.
The prison system will reportedly provide counselling and therapeutic assistance to help people cope when the no tolerance policy comes fully into effect.
Under the new guidelines, any inmate, employee, visitor or contractor who does not comply with Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison System Smoking Policy is also in breach of the law and subject to a fine.
A recent fire in a Honduras prison that killed hundreds of inmates in that country was reportedly traced back to a cigarette.
Read more @ http://www.compasscayman.com/caycompass/2012/07/24/Smoking-ban-to-be-enforced-in-prisons-in-phases/
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