Hmm... so heroin is readily available in the prisons? Well, I guess the silver lining is that it can't be all that hard to get cigarettes.

So, in their concern for public health, they are handing out needles to the inmates?

I can see it...I mean, afterall, if those needles are then used as weapons, there will be far fewer public menaces with which to concern themselves.

Next step?

Hypo-allergenic, 100% Egyptian cotton bedsheets (300 t.c.), used as tourniquets, to prevent infection to their wounds and new, soft, toilet seats to make face-flushing a less traumatic experience.

jmflynny,

300 thread count? You evil SOB - anything under 500 tc is unspeakably inhumane and you know it! What is it with you people and torturing prisoners?

I've heard that we're handing over prisoners to Jordan. They make them sleep on... oh, I can't bear to even type this... it's horrible, just terrible... POLYESTER BLEND!

HOW CAN WE LIVE WITH OURSELVES?!

My tentative retirement plan is to rob a bank in Canada and get sent to prison.

I have a lot of friends who are cops in Vancouver - and needles are their number one concern. Druggies even use them to rob gas stations. At any given time there are a few cops on medical leave taking an anti-AIDS drug cocktail "just in case" after getting stuck with a needle during a search or an arrest. The local needle "exchange" is run by a bunch of sloppy, enabling mofo's and they rarely insist on an actual exchange. I'm told that in the old days a junkie would die to protect his rig - but now they don't care and will casually use them as weapons. Ahh, progress.

Come now, Enas.

You wouldn't really want to be accused of 'coddling', now would you?

I say "Screw 'em!" 300 t.c. is all they deserve!