TUESDAY, SEPT UBER 10,
1991
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FREE ISSUE OF CIGARETTES TO PRISONERS WILL, STOP SOON
THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS DECIDED FREE ISSUE OF CIGARETTES TO PRISONERS AS FROM MID OCTOBER.
TO
STC P
THE
THIS FOLLOWS A LONG PERIOD OF CAREFUL CONSIDERATION AND LINE WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-SMOKING POLICY.
SAID THE MAJOR A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT BEHIND THE DECISION WAS THE HEALTH OF THE PRISONERS AND
TOTAL EFFORT
DISCOURAGE GOVERNMENT'S PART OF THE SMOKING.
TO
IS IN
CONSIDERATION THAT IT WAS FROM PEOPLE
BAN OF SMOKING IN PENAL STILL BUY CIGARETTES FROM THEIR
INSTITUTIONS. BARNINGS.
HOWEVER, THIS DID NOT MEAN A TOTAL
COULD PRISONERS
SOME PRISONERS IN REFERRING TO YESTERDAY'S INCIDENT IN WHICH
AGAINST THE NEW MEASURE, STANLEY PRISON REFUSED TO WORK IN PROTEST THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE DEPARTMENT WAS WELL PREPARED FOR ANY INCIDENTS.
HE SAID IT WOULD ALSO STEP UP COUNSELLING TO EDUCATE PRISONERS ON THE HEALTH HAZARDS CAUSED BY CIGARETTE SMOKING.
IN THIS REGARD, AN ANTI-SMOKING BOOKLET HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO ALL PRISONERS.
DESIGNED AND
ΤΟ WORK MIGHT
WITH
THE
THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT PRISONERS WHO REFUSED FACE DISCIPLINARY ACTION AND LOSS OF EARNINGS IN ACCORDANCE PRISON RULES.
PRISONERS RETURNED TO WORK
PRISONERS
CORRECTIONAL
ACTION AND REQUESTED DEPARTMENT (CSD) SPOKESMAN SAID THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON.
AT
STANLEY PRISON
RETURN TO
A TO WORK,
HAVE ABANDONED THEIR PROTEST SERVICES
PRISONERS
HAD WHO
REFUSED ΤΟ
WORK
BY 4 PM, ALL OF THE 900 EARLIER TODAY RETURNED TO WORKSHOPS AND RESUMED WORK.
ACTION YESTERDAY MORNING THE PRISONERS STARTED THEIR PROTEST
THE AFTER THE PRISON MANAGEMENT INFORMED THEM OF THE DECISION TO STOP FREE ISSUE OF CIGARETTES TO ALL PRISONERS AS FROM MID OCTOBER.
THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT THE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION ANTI-SMOKING POLICY.
AND WAS
CSD'S DECISION WAS IN LINE
THE WITH
MADE AFTER GOVERNMENT'S
THE MAJOR CONSIDERATION BEHIND THE DECISION WAS THE THE GOVERNMENT'S TOTAL THE PRISONERS AND IT WAS PART OF DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM SMOKING, THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.
HEALTH OF EFFORT
TO
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