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Jails Market E-Cigarettes to Detainees to Generate Revenue

by Mark Wilson

Prisons and jails across the country went tobacco-free years ago, to avoid second-hand smoke lawsuits and rising medical care costs. Now, impoverished jails are selling prisoners e- cigarettes, in hopes of profiting off their addiction.

“Hope I can make $45,000 a year and that profit will be ...

 

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