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WSR Smoking Suit Settled

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News November, 1996, page 14
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Smoking, Settlements. Location: Washington.
In 1991 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, WA, filed suit challenging their forced exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), AKA second hand smoke. On February 13, 1996, the suit was settled.

The essence of the settlement was that WSR would implement and enforce a no-smoking policy …

 

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