Six months or so ago, Washington State Prisons went "Tobacco Free." This included smoking and smokeless products. This rule is not just for us convicts, staff is also not supposed to smoke on prison grounds.
So how's it going you wonder? Us convicts are not smoking of course, but the officers here at Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, are puffing away at will and using smokeless tobacco.
They smoke and dip right in front of us and when we complain about it they tell us, "Hold your breath if you don't like it."
- a Washington Prisoner, August 2005