> Unfortunately try getting it allowed. Scott Geller, a professor of mine at
> Virginia Tech, has set up a behavioral economy at a local prison. The
> program worked great for a while. There was significantly less violence,
the
> day to day conditions improved considerably, more prisoners were attending
> classes, etc. The big problem with the program was that it ended up
> regulating things like cigarettes and other things that were used in the
> prison economy. One of the power brokers, as Geller called the guy, talked
> with his lawyer and managed to get an injunction stopping the entire
> project, on constitutional grounds. Within days of the program's
withdrawal
> things were back to what was happening previously - lots of violence, low
> turnout for classes etc. So the best thing that you can say about the
> program was that it worked.

This is really interesting  - are cigarettes a constitutional right?

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