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Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) has partially reversed its six-year-old smoking ban. Citing increased prisoner health care costs caused by smoking, the DOC banned cigarettes in all its facilities in 2004.

Since then, predictably, a black market for tobacco has thrived. Some prisoners reportedly make as much as $4,000 ...

 

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