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No Smoking In Jail

Over the next few months, the city of New York plans to extend the citywide ban on smoking in public areas and places of employment to its jails. Linda talks with Tom Antenen, the deputy commissioner of the New York City Corrections Department, about the effect this will have on inmates at New York's Riker's Island facility, which houses some eighty percent of the city's prison population.

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