Smoking is now prohibited in some Finnish prisons

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The first Finnish prison, what prohibits the smoking in its area is the Central Prison of Sornainen at Helsinki. This prohibition is somewhere criticized, but the reason for that is the cigarettes and tobacco products causes problems in prisons. The problem is that that stuff is used for merchandise for the prohibited items, and that is one reason to make the prison non-smoking area. The prisoners are sometimes against this thing, but they would not have listened, because the purpose of the prison is to punish criminals.


The problem, what those cigarettes are causing, is that sometimes weaker persons have forced to use their money for buying tobacco for their prisoner mates. Cigarettes are used for payment even for drugs like heroin, but I don't know how common this problem is in the prisons. All my pieces of information are from the articles in some magazines, what is telling about crimes. The non-smoking prisons also are safe, because there is no change to burn cell or cellmate with cigarettes. And the prisoners would not die of lung cancer so easily.


And that's why the prison staff would want to deny smoking in that area. There are stories that in some prisons in the world even murders have paid with cigarettes. Another thing, what is very interesting is that some prisoners have got some threats and they are claimed to steal another person's cigarettes.  And the price of those cigarettes has been raised even a thousand euros.