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Jump to full article: Nassau Guardian (bs), 2008-09-23
Author: CANDIA DAMES, Guardian News Editor
Intro: The government spends $250,000 a year to provide free cigarettes for inmates because the law mandates it, Superintendent of Her Majesty's Prison Dr. Elliston Rahming said during a House of Assembly crime committee hearing yesterday.
Rahming said under the law the prison must provide each inmate with 20 cigarettes per week.
His revelation appeared to have stunned members of the committee who were questioning him on the operations of the prison and its role in the fight against crime.
"If we could take that same money and put it toward a resettlement allowance [for ex-convicts], might that not be a better use of those funds and those inmates who smoke can get their cigarettes from the commissary," the prison superintendent said.
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