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To: Poet who wrote (5084)	8/6/2001 1:53:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 6089

Well, if you propose it in prison, the answer I think you get is, with the control you have over the prison population why can't you just stop the drug use in the first place? It's against all the rules for inmates to have needles in the first place, so if you exchange them rather than just confiscate them, you're saying we're going to accept that inmates haveneedles and we can't stop them, not only that but when we find an inmate with a needle we won't just confiscate it but will turn around and give him another illegal one, and that we tacitly say rather than stopping inmates from using illegal drugs here in our prison we're just going to make sure they break our rules safely. Pretty hard thing for a warden to say, I would think. Also, you then have a stash of needles in the prison which is subject to being stolen; probably harder to prevent than stopping them from coming in in the first place. Also, suppose an inmate got stabbed and seriously hurt with one of the needles you provided them, which they weren't supposed to have. Liability city! It's one of those ideas that makes too much sense on the surface to be doable, I fear.