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Jump to full article: New Orleans (LA) Times Picayune, 2009-08-04
Author: Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune
Intro: BATON ROUGE -- State and local prison inmates, the staff who oversee them and visitors to the jails will be restricted in their smoking habits starting Aug. 15, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said today.
Department spokeswoman Pam Laborde said that the 2006 law that banned smoking in most public places took affect Jan. 1, 2007, but its implementation for prisons was delayed.
Two prisons --- Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport and Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson -- served as the pilot program for the system's smoking restrictions and put them in place May 15, Laborde said.
Dixon Warden Steve Rader said that there have been no incidents as a result of the smoking ban. He said that the the prison has designated areas where inmates, employees and visitors can smoke during the day.
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