Mississippi inmates to be allowed to smoke in prison. MDOC says it will sell tobacco. Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced Friday afternoon that inmates will be allowed to smoke in designated areas beginning in 2021.
According to a news release, Mississippi will be the 28th state to allow inmates to legally smoke on prison property beginning on Feb. 1. It will be the first time in 10 years inmates will be allowed to use cigarettes inside Mississippi s state correctional facilities.
“Inmates who smoke are smoking anyway, but they’re having to smuggle in tobacco to do it, which is illegal, and it’s even more illegal because state law prohibits smoking in state buildings, Commissioner Burl Cain said in a statement. That compromises our Corrections officers and staff and puts them at risk to either break the law by allowing the smoking or
Smoking will soon be legal again in Mississippi prisons (Source: Gray News) By Anthony Warren | December 23, 2020 at 4:32 PM CST - Updated December 23 at 5:33 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Smoking will soon be legal again in the state’s prisons.
Beginning February 1, 2021, Mississippi prison inmates will be able to smoke legally for the first time in 10 years.
Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said the change will protect inmates who are already smoking, and corrections officials, who might be smuggling tobacco products into the prisons.
“Inmates who smoke are smoking anyway,” he said in a release. “But they’re having to smuggle tobacco in, which is illegal, and it’s even more illegal because state law prohibits smoking in state buildings.”
Autopsies set after deaths of 3 more Mississippi inmates
December 22, 2020 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Mississippi Department of Corrections said autopsies are being done on inmates who died in recent days.
The department said in a news release Monday that William Stanley Wilson II, 42, died Friday in the hospital of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Wilson had been in and out of the hospital during the past year.
Wilson was convicted in DeSoto County of murder, kidnapping and first-degree arson. He was sentenced to 10 years on May 11, 2009, after pleading guilty to kidnapping a minor. A jury later convicted him of killing a woman and setting her home on fire in an unrelated case, and he was sentenced as a habitual offender on Oct. 28, 2009.
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