What Happened When Prisoners Started Vaping 

how dare he give inmates the freedom to buy nicotine products!!!

true but we don’t know what goes on behind closed doors

Carno Con the whole point in being incarcerated is to have all luxuries taken away as a PUNISHMENT funnily enough. But tbh if I went to jail I would hope it was this guys jail

Murderbird 17 was thinking the same. I don’t know any jailers lol, but they did try to make him look bad for sure.. Like the journalist had a bias perspective based on his questions.

well yeah it's vice. it's what they do.

i've never been but i can only imagine it lessens the tension a lot

criminals, pff

Cost $2, sold for $15 with no competition to people with nearly no rights. Require the inmates go CLEAN and let the jail deal with the withdrawal.

@@LeetHaxington he put the profits back into the prison on things most prisons can’t afford

@@LeetHaxington capitalism the smart and hard working win 🤷‍♂️ the uneducated and lazy lose sounds fair to me

i peeped that too... he tryna get a buzz off the muf 😂

“Double shmack” is what me and my coworker have been calling it

@@noahjon-darius1509 lmaoo me nd my coworker used to call it that too. We have all sorta of terms. "Hit a blinker" "let's go shmack them pens" 😭😭

And it was a blinker😹

@@isabellegonzales8535 can i hit the schmack for the one time

Yes and then you have the fact that people get incredibly anxious and immensely irritable without tobacco which in turn causes catastrophic hostile results. Not only for the population of the prisons but also the officers within the prison. It's a no brainer. And there is no solid evidence that E cigarettes are harmful, tobacco on the other hand is a very different story. It's pretty obvious how helpful this is.

@@rickdb8480 They should get better TVs with gaming systems and nice gamer chairs also.

@@rickdb8480 I’m one of those people. I use cannabis and psilocybin to help with my depression and EID. I picked up a tiny nicotine habit just happening to work in a smoke shop. They say nicotine makes depression worse but it works when I’m out of shrooms or weed or else I can become a very angry negative person. Ive tried everything to control my anger sports, meditation, art, partial hospitalization therapy for 33 hrs/week, screaming in fields, etc it only works for about a day. My most common EID symptoms are long term appetite loss and insomnia which aren’t things that help one’s mood or decision making skills at all so I absolutely need my smoke breaks

@Lo L. hope life gets better man, for both of us.

It’s so easy to quit going to jail. You just sleep for a few days and you’re good before you know it. You don’t want any vices while you’re locked up. Anything you can give up the better off you are because it just causes problems.

*SHANK SHANK*

@XML studios its a joke Einstein

XML studios too late

El Loko DONT LOOK AT ME I HAVE TOOTI FRUITY MANNNGG

XML studios stop ruining a good joke

He seem like a really wholesome guy! I am still pretty sure that he also makes a big profit from it, which i think is good. Smart people should absolutely be rewarded for making the world better. Vice does not seem to agree with this.

True that, it seems like these braindead in the comment section saying "yeah but he makes money off of it" dont know how the real world works. What? you want to give it away for free? of course he wanted to make money, he needs to feed his family after all.

@@razaninaufal broke pocket folks who aren't happy with their lives are saying that in the comments. Unhappy nags

SYMPATHY! NOT EMPATHY! IT'S NOT THE SAME THING!! I'M SO TIRED OF IGNORANT PEOPLE USING THIS WORD INCORRECTLY!

​@@joelspringman7748 Could be empathy as well. He's emapthic towards his gaurds having to deal with nicotine withdrawn pyschos all day, becuase he probably has in the past. Whos gives an F about those convicts. Over half of them probably suffer from ant-social personality disorder and would take out a prison guard as soon as an opportunity presented its self.

Hope you are doing well now brother

In Canada back in the day when you got to jail they would give you a pouch of tabbaco and two packs of zig zags as soon as you got there. Now they just cuff you 30 bucks for canteen and hygiene products. Lol people used to fight over the ciggarrette butts in the ash tray I agree with you BUT people would be getting punched out for spending there cash on other things like dope and cuffing e cigs they use Nicorette as currency nowadays too and those lozenges (but you’ve been there I’m sure you know that) itll never change totally different world people getting shanks buried in there skulls over bags of chips and pop

Hope your doing well.

I was in the same boat, locked up and detoxing. I would've killed for one of these.

In German jail you can Buy tobacco in a jail Shop...

That and a state law that profits have to go back into the jail to help inmates.

@@commodoresixfour7478 This is the way!

@Jerry Rose if he wanted to make a profit in the first place why is he still a jailer?

Jerry Rose where did u got ur info from ? It’s easy to pull shit out of ur ass.

bs he makes money.. trust me he gets a cut

That's only at his prison idiot. That profit he is making off those other prisons buying the e-cigs off his company is straight money into the company and then into his pocket.

@@billcai7138 because prison and jail makes MONEY

You nailed it, the guy really does seem like he just wanted to make jail life a little easier/safer/better for his colleagues and the prisoners

JDK he’s from Vice what can you expect?

Wesley P what’s more harmful. Vapor pens that contain Nicotine that helps take the edge off of prison life which is very stressful or a bunch of inmates fresh off the streets where a lot of them smoked going through withdrawals and or being stressed out/angry thus causing more fights/violence? Morally I think it’s wrong to deny someone the freedom to choose something that helps them cope with incarceration.

Cause VICE is full of prick Leftists now... Everything's with a bigoted ignorant anti-Capitalist, anti-America, anti-Right etc. Agenda.

The interviewer just didn't ask the questions right. He should've said 'do you think the prisons are overcharging the prisoners to boost revenue?'

Who is?

@@ingmarvanolffen the guy who invented the prison e-cig.

That is the one job I could never do. God bless him .

@@billymack333 he’s the warden not a CO

@@TstanDa-Man I realise that but he’s also the inventor of the prison e-cig, which considering the millions incarcerated in the US system means it’s a very profitable product. Therefore he’s probably making good money and doesn’t need to work in the prison, or anywhere.

He only mentioned one purchase that cost 75k out 3.5million

Only the profit made from his jail has to go back into his jail. Profit he makes off of other jails is profit.

I see now thank you

@@franciscomoreno7627 The 75K was 100% of the profit he made at his jail, and additionally, for him to only make 3.5 million, he obviously doesn't have a good margin either. The prisons themselves seemed to profit several times more than he does.

It said that the state law mandates it, so he is legally obliged to do it. No matter how you phrase it, this guy is getting people hooked on nicotine and keeping them as docile little sheep so they don't get into his way during the day instead of actually helping them. Granted I know to little of this guy to pass judgement on him, but this isn't right.

Yes it is great that it exists, but if the producers and especially the prisons make 12 dollars of profit per 3 dollar e-cig, they could fucking cell it for 5 just aswell instead of being the typical greed driven american capitalist

@@jahrazzjahrazz8858 they have to make a profit for themselves and jail they had a whole ass flat screen tv

@@jahrazzjahrazz8858 Then don’t buy them if they’re too expensive?

@@andrewp146 The normal point of "just dont buy it then" is that there are other producers and a fucking healthy economy with competition, do prisoners have a free market to choose from? They fucking monopolize the market while also using slave labour, thats fucking peak capitalism. No one cares for the humans, the only thing that matters is making the most amount of cash from exploiting human work and human addiction.

@@syvdyvdyfyveydtxt2250 Having to make a profit is one thing, but a 333% markup is something else entirely.

A rapist should not be rehabilitated and enter the real world….there’s a reason why jail exists……

@@simonhasmimi8296 retributive justice doesn't work

Just remember not all criminals are bad people. That's the important part. Plenty of them are, but definitely not all of them. Stupid decision, wrong place wrong time, perhaps you just wanted to get high could get you locked up here and there so.... yeah.

That's exactly what caught my attention! He's not doing this to get rich.. he could charge more than 2/3$ to the prisons if that were the case... he understands they're human beings and they're going thru a lot and to expect someone just to up and change many addictive behaviors/habits all at once is to expect them to be superhuman while subjecting them to living in inhumane conditions; as is the case in countless jails/prisons...with sub-par Healthcare... if any...etc...etc.... the list goes on. Don't get me wrong inmates that are actually guilty do not deserve the Ritz... but the majority of the vcurrent prisons conditions in this country are unacceptable

@@mstreemoon8117 There's really no way to tell. He has a monetary incentive to have people buy them. But maybe that doesn't effect him. The jails are definitely stacking cash with his invention. Selling them for 5 times the price to addicted locked up people... Boojah🤑! But hey, where would we live if being in jail was fun.

that's a really good point

Yanny county jail

The thing is would you buy cigs that are contraband and risk going to the hole and lose all your privileges in prison or buy a vape and not risk shit and still get that nicotine that keeps you going through the day. This is the problem with guys who never been to jail or prison. Nicotine is the saving grace when serving time and well many people kill for cigarettes in prison where you can't get any nicotine legaly. Cigarettes is the second most valueable thing after dried noodles. Drugs are the third. So yeah nothing gay about not wanting to get put in isolation or a penal cell when you already serving time. Isolation and penal cells are the literal embodiment of hell on hearth you get out max an hour sometimes guards cheat you of your rectime and you don't get to go out at all and you are stuck there alone in a grey fucking concrete box that only seems to get smaller with each hour it breaks even the hardest mother fuckers when put in the hole for a long time.

"Aye loc you got anymore of that blueberry bubblegum g" haha

@Vx - chill man its a joke

everybody gangsta until the parsnip starts walkin

I like your analysis

Lmao if i go to long with out a smoke im ready to kill people now imagine what a killer would do

@@dominicsanthuff jesus man. Take up vaping much safer than cigarettes

@@juanreza6308 i do vape nowdays i still refer to as smokein tho

just lock em in solitary until they stop acting up

Plus it's a carrot to keep em in line, they can loose smoking privileges for fights or other common ugliness.

I thought he said 10-15 a pop

@@___meph___4547 except you don't inhale coffee....

@@everybodyclapyourhands4742 I think they meant "not obliged"

@@___meph___4547 yes, but lungs are really sensitive. I think vaping will kill a person in under 200 years but thats not really a concern. I do get cough, and i do vape. Havent smoked cigarettes in years but i occasionally smoke weed. So im all for it dont get me wrong. Its harm reduction

Honestly this guy is no angel..he’s providing a useful service it’s just basic capitalism if he really was 100% trying to help the price for these e cigs would be a lot less not 5x the cost of production. For the record I have been locked up and 90% of these COs and LTs treat you like crap and wouldn’t step in to save you from dying if they weren’t worried about losing their job..I had one night a guy had a seizure and fell off the top bunk and as he was leaking everywhere the COs were more concerned with accusing someone of punching him then rushing him to get medical attention

@@TheAoalec14 how you know ?? Wos you in his jail ?? Not all people in sistem are morons

@@TheAoalec14 Everyone deserves respect, but respect must be earned. If I am convicted of a crime and get locked up than the cost of my E-Cig shouldn’t be my primary priority. He’s no angel because basically NO ONE is an “angel”, nobody is a saint and it’s unfair to task one person with that level of moral upstanding.

You also have to remember the price will be higher for this custom e cig because they are low production compared to regular e cigs. If he was ordering 10 million e cigs a month they would probably be 75 cents a piece.

@@TheAoalec14 honestly if you knew anything about economics if he sold this product at 1 to 1 there would be no exspansion

I'm genuinely curious how does it help? I dont see it

@@RaduP3 for someone who comes from a drug addicted life or even a smoking habit in their life before jail, they will become super aggitated when being forced to quit cold turkey cause theres no nicotine available. I can see as an ex smoker 10000% how this would help the mood itself in the jail.

@@Jess-mx8wy yeah but that doesnt Take much time to go away. Im a smoker too, other drugs addict same myself. But to have someone smoke in Prison for like 10 years instead of letting him be stressed for like 1 month lets say, it seems The best solution in my opinion is letting them suffdr for 1 month and then they gsined something from it

@@RaduP3 if you honestly cant see how this is helpful towards the mood even tho youre a smoker yourself then idk what else to say man. These people are already in prison for most likely.. not being able to control their emotions and doing something they shouldnt have. Adding more stress on top of that by forcing prisoners to quit smoking is not gunna help anything.

@@Jess-mx8wy I've never been to prison but I did both Navy and Army boot camps.. guys go cold turkey and get real depressed and anxious. I can definitely see the medicinal use of this.

DJ Narvaez I’m glad I’ve never smoked

DJ Narvaez Had a male soldier during the Gulf War who ran out of cigarettes. I'm a nonsmoker and health nut but I actually bought him cigarettes as he was really stressing out and being a pain. He was a pretty good soldier and I figured it would be best for both of us for him to have his cigarettes. ( PMS)

@@humanbeing-001 oh please you sensitive shit. Give the guy a break. We all gonna end up as ashes or eaten by earth worms anyways.

Smokers don't understand. That non smokers don't want to smell nasty a$$ cig smoke.. Learn to be a victor. Not a victim.

@@DigitalPraise7 we actually do! We were non smokers before...

Yeah, asking about his motives is bad!! We shouldn’t know at all!

I feel like this is something a lot of people misunderstand about journalism. Asking very blunt, almost rude questions like this is a good way to really highlight the trustworthiness (or lack thereof) of the interviewee. The more the interviewee tries to talk around the question or sounds defensive, the less likely they are to be genuine and vice versa. It's not a matter of "treating him as the bad guy", it's asking important questions that anybody should be thinking about in a situation like this and giving the man a chance to directly defend himself...or hang himself with the rope you gave him. Either way you're a bit closer to the truth.

@@Rynjinivar true, but you're asking someone to tone down their biases before watching a piece of journalism in order to see that interesting dichotomy in the first place. very hard when people are preemptively expecting to need to defend their mental set, lol

Ric Sims this is not rehabing.

u right lol these dummies

Most people on camera dont seem malicious but yeah I agree in this case, just seemed like a fair thing to do

Lukas Tran yes I’m currently addicted to xans, I felt as if i went to prison and they allowed me to smoke my stress from not having my bars would be lowered

Also, the mrisnors that we saw weren't aggressive, some got there from and addiction. Yes he makes money of it but he puts the earned money back into his jail

Excellent point.

Maybe, but then he would have a guaranteed market that he runs.

If he quit he would lose the monopoly in the jail. He won't quit.

*in revenue

He wouldn't have a market outside of the jail. Lol. They are shitty little $3 ecigs he buys from another company and resells them over 500% to the prisoners. It's extortion. He should have to let other e-cigarette companies offer their products at the jail at least. Then you'd have people saying all jails should have ecigs. Then you'll have people saying why ecigs but you can't have a cigarette. Lmao butterfly effect. I think he had good intentions, but sees the money in it. Prisoners are already exploited out the fucking wazoo, let's not make this worse for them. Make them stop bad habits. Not enable people to make insane amounts of money off of them and their families.

Exactly, That’s what I was thinking

At first i disagreed with the jailer then I realized its a business not a monopoly, a competing company could come in and dethrone him.

agreed. they were digging deep to make him out to be a profiteer, but the profits go back into the facility, which also makes the inmates lives relatively better. also, if he did profit from it is that even bad?

@@thepjup4507 profit is bad in their eyes. everyone should work for the common good and have no private property.

@@michaelelsner274 well VICE is notoriously anti capitalist so makes sense they'd try to paint that in a bad light. Interesting insight you have, thanks for sharing.

Patches worked well for me to quite twice in my life.

@Leggo MuhEggo it’s just not the same bro. I tried 5 nicotine gum but I was still thinking about my vape.

@@jhoughjr1oral fixation is also a big part of drug addiction

@@dasteelers_YT true, but u gotta have will power to stop for a few days

@@mrenigmaofficial0314 I promise you it harder than you think

Maybe he putting calming down tree and topaco

Mychelle VanSchaick they already did that bfore this new adition

He isn’t putting the money back into the system. The jail/prison is the one making profit from the cigs so that money gets put back in. He’s still selling the cigs to that prison, albeit at cost.

He's making money by selling to the prison. The prison is making money by selling to the prisoners but puts it back into upkeep/upgrades. The guy found something and is making good money from it, I don't blame him for that. A lot of people would do the same if they had a chance. But to say it's morally right isn't correct either, it's more or less in the gray area.

Mychelle VanSchaick Lol

You mean software

3.5m a year

It's a win-win brilliant idea

But all the money generated from the inmates has to go back into the prison, its mostly for the inmates

@@pinkipromise thats the company's earnings from sales, thats not profit. i'm sure the R&D cost a pretty little penny, and im sure he's not getting the best deals on manufacturing yet

Give them low doses of heroin.

No they didn't at all. There's a conflict of interest and they didn't even touch on health concerns. If anything it's a softball article.

There's no issue. He's feeding people's addictions to make money. Might as well give them weed or free massages. Hell I'm sure a prostitute would calm them down better than an electronic cigarette.

They definitely didn’t try to paint him as the villain

i did not see the person doing the interview trying to paint him as a bad person or a villain as you put it at all he ASKED a very direct question period simple as that he asked a direct question to which he received a DIRECT answer for .

@@Commander_ZiN What about the health concerns attached to withdrawal side effects and the increased rates of violence and suicide? if anything its an objectivist article without a spin

Ok, next time give us a spoiler alert pal.

Lol it was a heads up 🤣 it's in the title 🤣

its more as there charging 3x the price to them to flip.... jail turned trap house

@@hewasdoa_3474 It's a dam shame is what it is.

Lol

think about it this way, there's a market for a prison vape, if he didn't create one to fill that market someone else undoubtedly would have. At the end of the day, the prisoners themselves would rather have them than illegally sneak cigs in or go without. If anything, he's doing great work for inmates, giving them a way to relax and feel somewhat at home in a place of constant stress, he just unfortunately has to market that product to other jailers.

anyone who is apart of putting people in cages or keeping them there is not a decent man. idc what perspective you have about it.

@@Lilregpack as an anarchist I tend to agree, but the world is made up of shades of grey, try to remember you catch more flies with honey, and that in your face " vinegar" response to things will turn more people away from your ideas than attract. If you can meet someone half way it's easier to walk them the rest of the way. This man seems to be trying to make things as best as he can for all those involved, he still shows up because he think he can make a difference. In my book, he's a good man just needs to work on his politics. TLDR I hope whatever is behind all this we call life doesn't judge you as harshly as you do others

@@charlesalberti563 there's nothing behind it, thats why i'm the best person i can possibly be. bc no one is watching. i dont take other people or creatures in general lives away for judgements that i make on them for "crimes" that they commit for a false sense of right and wrong based on nothing but fairytales. i'm not judging him harshly, nor would i treat him differently than anyone else, but he's no better than the murderers and rapists that he keeps in his cage.

@@Lilregpack you going to far cuz I can guarantee them murderers and rapists would’ve never did the same if they were in his shoes

I served time in VBCC Virginia were they sold these and they cause more fights, extortion, and theft then any other commissary item. Since I got out I now have a smoking habit after buying them in the jail for $15 to relieve stress and sometimes they only a couple hours lasted hours. Crazy how broke inmates would do just about anything to hit a cig. Even selling the dead ones for $5 so that a battery pack could be made to wire it and get the most use out of one.

You are truly an absolute dumbass if you think that is going to prevent people from being robbed or extorted. That doesn't stop an inmate from stealing the ecigs from another inmate. It must means that when an inmates wants to purchase an ecig from commissary, they must present the ecig they bought last time. It doesn't mean that they don't have another 20 ecigs that they got from exorting other inmates. Besides, you seem to be a Ben Shapiro fan judging from your taste in videos. So why are you so willing to take the word of the government as fact all of a sudden? Looks like conservative posturing about the government is just that...

Is it a drug, then why discuss it, volatile situations could ensue if misused, unpredictable behaviour of any users, if it's nerve-wracking don't get involved, if you had a choice, cooperate or perish, does it affect your health, don't deny the fact,sad story of prison life💥🚬💲✅

Out of all the predatory behavior in the world why would you stop in inmates from getting nicotine 🤷

Everything is currency in prison, just as it is in the free world.

Mitchell Young he could sell them at cost. Or with all proceeds going back to jails and prisons. But instead it’s a private, for-profit business. That’s where the problem lies since the inmates don’t have a market choice with another company. Say there was a competitor or two, then the rules of the market would apply and costs would come down or the service would improve. Does that make sense?

You clearly projected your own BS because the piece makes him seem reasonable for drugging his inmates and profiting off of it.

@@nitramwin Did you not watch the rest of this video? I guess not because it is clearly stated that the revenue made by the sale of these e cigarettes MUST go back into the prisoners welfare by mandate of Kentucky law

socaliguy81 you clearly don’t know about prison, inmates can still get anything on the inside that they could on the outside (anything) this includes heroine meth anything u could imagine . So take that Into consideration and all of a sudden buying an e-cig legally doesn’t seem to awful

He asked questions that anyone watching this video would have, he raised the obvious point of self interest up. He gave the jailer a platform to address these questions. How is that making him look bad?

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"accusing" .... sensitive much ? he raised a legitimate question, that's all

@@anjayl exactly, it's called journalism lol

@@trevorwalden6097 poorly done journalism nonetheless

@@jaredruiz9344 how so?

@Christian Granados I mean you are right. I attended a very rough highschool. Where some people whom I meet will probably be a felon in the future. This one guy. Who was probably one of the toughest guys I know said "he was offered money to break both of my arms, and legs, but because I was so nice, and respectful to him, he would never do it. I also had some people try to beat me up, but got defended by alot of people because I would always say hello to them in the morning, offer them food, and help with studying if we had the same class. So in my case. Being polite has saved my ass more than once

Just have a peak at European prisons 😅

Jail should be a confinement not a punishment. To protect people from potentially dangerous people. Although laws these days are fuckings stupid leading to dumb arrests so dont count all prisoners

@@michaelballard4916 damn someone was willing to pay to get yo ass busted... what you do yo him damn

Makayla Awesome that’s so crazy I saw you on another video talking about tobacco leaves or sum like dat

A little respect and understanding can make all the difference

@@ryanrosser7916 not when you’re dealing with criminals words aren’t a supports actions are for these people

That, and he works in a prison so he has thick skin. He gets trolled, Baited & Antagonize by 550 inmates daily, I highly doubt social media phases him.

Also if its legal and they can find a way to make it safe in their prison then why not?

yeah, cause hes feeding their addiction and not helping them. of course they like him

@STONE COLD 15 bucks isnt that much hell thats the market price

@STONE COLD 3:55 according to this video, he sold it for two dollars per piece to the prison, and the prison itself resold it for fifteen dollars. It is not his place to tell the prison how much his product should be sold for. Prisons always mark up everything from phone calls to ramens

@@syasyaishavingfun 3dollars*

@@syasyaishavingfun the video straight up says it's his prison, fun fact prisons in America are run by the government, but owned independently

@@vrcompatible8999 he doesn't own the prison, he's just a guard. It's like saying 'im going to my school' you don't actually own your school

Yeah because they have no choice fool

@@elizabethgibson3395 You can still buy tobacco in prisons it's banned in.

Yea same

Alot of Truth in this comment

That's the point. Instead of having folks try to smuggle in cigs and tobacco, they can get one or two of these and be set for quite awhile.

What?

@@thegreatestmantoeverwlkthe4819 wha.....you what I won't bother go ahead

They should have these in every jail , it would help on people hooping and smuggling tobacco in , just like the Leftist Vice though eh , they do the story , and at the end try to make it sound like he's doing it for profit , Come on there Vice .

@@adamdanko596 well, to be fair they're only making it sound like he's doing it for profit... _because he _*_IS_*_ doing it for profit_ yes, he is *directly* profiting from the misery of the people he is supposed to protect. they should only adopt this program in other jails if it is cheaper for the inmates than regular smokes.

LMFAO bro chill@@thegreatestmantoeverwlkthe4819

Most relatable comment.

Even if it’s not completely altruistic, who cares? He made a product that works for that environment and that allows inmates to continue their chosen addiction. I am glad though that Kentucky has laws that require profits made off prisoners to be reinvested into something that will improve their well being.

Drew's Power House yea everybody says “vaping is bad” do u know what else is bad? Caffeine, sugar, soda, fat foods, so why bully vape? Its helping smokers get out of the far worse habbit

@@tjcollincollin7390 How is caffeine bad for you? if anything, there has been many health benefits that come from caffeine. And maybe we shouldn't have sugar soda and fatty foods around, you make a good point.

​@@MrKyle700 Caffeine can irritate your stomach (does for me definitely) and has physical withdrawal symptoms (heard of people getting headaches/moody from not drinking their morning coffee?). Overall a more potent drug than people give it credit for.

Spot on. He could have left the jail and launched his company. The jail has to put the revenue back into its own budget so he basically doesn’t earn money from it. Although since they say he sells the e cigs 5x the price he buys them, he could have easily left and sold the product to other jail for a portion of that 80% margin and be rich as hell

@@nytim666 If he left the prison he would have no guarantee that they'd sell them would he?

@@nytim666 You are an idiot. He is not the one who is buying the ecigs, as you stated in your comment. He owns the company that manufactures them. Only the jail has to put its profits back into the system. It said nothing about the company putting its profits into the system. The video said that the ecigs are purchased from the company at 2-3 dollars and sold at 12-15 dollars to the inmates. All of those profits should go to funding inmate programs, but knowing the corruptness of the American "corrections" system, it's probable that it doesn't actually work that way. Regardless, that has nothing to do with what the company itself makes. They might manufacture these ecigs for 50 cents each and be making huge profits. Those profits are completely his. Therefore, he is earning money from it and you are completely wrong. By the way, even if the jail wasn't putting the profits it makes back into its own budget, it wouldn't be his money because the jail's profits aren't his (unless there is corruption). No, he wouldn't have been able to leave and sell the ecigs to other jails for higher prices if he had left. What makes you think that was an option? It seems that institutions have been extremely skeptical of his products since only 33 of them have opted in. Every jail and prison works by selling their commissary at extremely high markups. They sell individual ramen noodle packs for $1 or more. Do you really think the prisons are paying much more than what grocery stores pay for them? I have no problem with inmates having access to nicotine. I do have a problem with inmates being taken advantage of because they have no other options. I also have a problem with idiots like you acting like others are doing things out of the goodness of their hearts when they are actually most concerned with making a profit.

@@JerzyFeliksKlein probably has patents, but you can sign vendor contracts with state and city governments guaranteeing so many years of sales. Plus he already has 33 customers.

Or he just found an easy and consistent revenue stream with little competition selling to people whose long-term health he doesn't care about because their status as criminals. A lot of people in these comments jumping to defend him with very flimsy reasoning beyond "I was a prisoner and drug addict and I need cigarettes when I'm in there so this is good for me"

Derek Savery WTF??? He has tons of people enslaved in dangerous cages against there will and now he’s over charging them for fake chemical cigarets when everyone in there is broke, HOW IS HE A GOOD GUY!!? HES A MONSTER!!!

@@XGaming1 i seriously hope you are just tryna bait/make a joke

Derek Savery go commint a felony so you two can be together

The three above comments are from losers

Take it from someone who knows him personally...he’s anything but a good guy

I try not to think about "deserving" when it comes to restorative justice. You're right - the care he has can help everyone get to his level.

RawrCx he dsnt give a shyt about the inmates its all about making money 🤑

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loostonerool I would too

Anthony Orozco Of course it is about making money but he almost certainly took a gigantic financial risk to do this. Also he could have pursued a selfish way to make money like most people but he chose a way that helps him & other people.

Well now that they're hooked on nicotine they will be more cautious about rioting and commiting harsh crimes because they'll have their e cigs taken away and they don't wanna go through withdrawal

@@G33_528_ absolutely im sure most the guys doing a vape probably only injected heroin or snorted coke on sundays before prison. now they are hooked on the HARD stuff. 3mg mango ejuice lmao

@@stinkythepenguin 😂🤦‍♂️

@@stinkythepenguin nice one 😂😂😂

@@stinkythepenguin L it takes 3 days to go through withdrawals for hardcore drugs it takes 2 weeks-4 months to get over nicotine , speak on what you know goofy

I Seriously think they should give prisoners Ecstasy once a week, optional of course. :) Before the regimine there are gang fights... after the block on E... half are singing, some are wandering like fairies even though they straight as an arrow... Races mixing to play Twister and Poker... Skin head and Muslim Emum playing Patti-cake Bakers Man... The Bully of the Block, the unreasonable BISON is sitting at a table knitting... Yeah... Pot would work too but they would all sleep ... that might be good too though, but they will get fat on munchies..

@@jasonsage1417 o

@@jasonsage1417 Who gets fat from munchies lol? I mean I just began smoking like 5 months ago but I've never gained weight, Instead I've lost a decent amount.

Psycotiks lmao you’ll get there man. Been smoking for 3 years and I’ll admit my smoking habit got me getting fat lol.

I don’t feel sorry for a criminal

That is actually the greatest insight in the comments... very, very true. He wouldn't even have to work there anymore. But, yet he does.

That warden at the jail makes 6 figures and being employed there keeps the networking at his finger tips. He leaves the jail system that gives someone else the opportunity to encroach

@@sarahgrace6769 His primary form of networking will be trade shows. If he was to leave the job, he'd make far more money pushing the business much harder. I suspect his main motivation to carry on working there is because he wants to actually help prisoners get out of the system. He does come across as a genuine person who just saw a way to solve a problem.

I live in Corbin,KY inside laurel county. Trust me there are a lot of crooked people in every small town like ours. Jamie Mosley could very easily make a SHIT TON more money leaving this county and pushing his company but instead he genuinely cares about his home town. Anyone that thinks he’s exploiting prisoners should meet this man and figure out that he actually cares about helping his prisoners and not making a bad situation worse than it has to be. What we aren’t talking about is how since this has been implemented violence has even went down because it gives the feeling that you aren’t just some piece of trash and you are a person that may have made a small bad decision.

he's a pos exploiting the system and getting rich, nothing new here, sad its allowed.

Retro Twix it doesnt he was just trying to be funny lmao

1 He wasn't trying to be funny by commenting Its not funny

Retro Twix it means if someone underage goes to jail for vaping they’ll just vape more

lol omfgg

@@oscarquizapa9280 Who goes to jail for vaping? lmao shake your head

Cool gta pic

You gotta get your hustle on if you don't have funds. You can wash clothes, clean cells, and do all kinds of stuff for other inmates.

Fact

Unfortunately like everything in life

Kill them all useless waste of space and money. Good day

No, I sure hope he doesn’t smoke. You have a better life when you’re not addicted to that shit. But I wish he would recognize the struggle for someone who is.

Would be good if they got a professional in to speak on how addictive it can be and why the e-cigarettes in a prison are a good idea.

He is a Soy Boy.

nicotine addiction is only prevalent because cigs are so easy to buy. nic addiction is pitiful.

Well if you look them up they aren't even reporters 😂😂

Yeah cause we owe some piece of shit in jail "a free lifetime crutch." Meanwhile, out in the real world, you have to get a full time job just to support your own crutch and bills.

@@humanbeing-001 going to jail doesnt make you a piece of shit. Plus they're not free so wtf?

@@Saint2K13 yes it does. I have been.

@@nobody-yu4cf nah homie it don't make you necessarily a bad person just that you've made bad choices and got busted

@Caleb Not true at all some people don't have a choice and if you don't understand that then clearly you've never been in that kind of position to know not everyone is as privileged as others

I don't think the questions were antagonizing personally

Pretty sure he knows someone close to him or within his family who went through bad times. Otherwise most jailers don’t give a damn.

Journalism isn't here just to give you a hug and kiss it's meant to ask the hard questions.

I disagree, at first glance the questions may seem slightly antagonizing but they are still very important to ask.

That's the point of real journalism as opposed to softball questions.

Just nasty

Broooo you got the same pro pic as me!!

@@Pieppe18 what's the pic from?

R. Dillon Am from Scotland I just got out of jail in time tobacco but the e cigs wear for sale too but our ones wear hard I made a blade out or mine and people can smoke legal with our ones too can they do it ?

Did you get some good booger spits with it to?

He's still making a profit, hell even a killing. It just ends up making more for the prison than the dude but he's still making millions.

I don’t think you understand, the Jailer owns the company, he sells his product to prisons and prisons raise the price and sell it to inmates and that money from the inmates is out back in the prison, not the money the jailer who owns the company gets

@@user-qo6hz4nb2e is money wrong

I can't stand vice employees. Total leftist cancel culture all the way.

Vice is American. Of course they’re ignorant.

Oh that’s crazy bro

JBLSPEAKER Hahahahaha

Wickity to the nickity sickity sick

damn you must be cool

the real og

Trust me man, ex junkies really put away those cigs

You know what? There might not be a tomorrow for them, they could get raped and stabbed, infected with diseases and killed. Their lifestyles before this probably included crippling and potentially fatal withdrawals and hangovers. Please think of how hard prison life really is, never being able to see your family or kids grow up. Etc. A 5watt or whatever vegtable glycerine vape is NOTHING to worry about.

@@NapoleonDynamite69 that's church bro. A lot of people commenting have no idea what it's like. Not being able to see your kids grow, family disappointed in you, or if you are lucky enough to make it out, the hardships of finding a job. People look at you in a different way. I respect this guy just having a source of nicotine in prison or jail is gonna have huge benefits. It really takes some of the stress away. I've seen someone get killed for a pack of cigs it just ain't pretty. This jailor is a hero as far as I am concerned. This dude is gonna legit save lives.

@NonLegit Nation most are dude, most are

Nobody smokes more than ex heroin meth crack and alcoholics usually

Its vice

your comment hasn't gotten a clue.

@@adriandurlej9266 lol sure pal

It's Vice, I wouldn't expect much.

Hey man r u actually stumped

Meth?

I got punched so hard in jail I shit myself.

Every sinner got a future, every angel has got a past brotha.

Two very (probably) true statements. Good insight if I do say so myself, very good indeed, sir! Haha

This ain't jail this is prison homie

Right on point.

It's his job to investigate every possible angle of a story. The questions he asked were fair.

Problem - Reaction - Solution

It's a vice reporter. What, you expected him to actually know something? ;)

he's doing his job as a reporter not to take either side imo. i thought it was a good interview. and i certainly don't begrudge the jailer making a profit just the same as any entrepreneur. his mark up does not seem outrageous. not when compared to something like big pharma

Scot Fretwell is this sarcastic or not

Scot Fretwell frfr

Yes thank god

TheGingerDragon what makes u say that

Life is 1 big game of sarcastic a ball and its getting wac

as a former inmate myself and somebody who is a recovering addict i know all to well what it is like NOT having a smoke even more so if you are going through withdrawals not having a smoke during that nightmare process can make even the most gentle of souls snap .

I think if we were to sell ecigs it like this prison it would make things easier

And if they are caught smoking them, that's a month or two in lock up and probably some added time. Officers aren't allowed to smoke inside prison, why should inmates be allowed?

That’s like saying people are going to die either way, why not kill them.

True

@@frightmurk846 no thats like saying: humans are allowed to do with their bodies what they want as long they harm no one. Who own your body? you or the government? Who should be allowed to decide what gets in it? You or the government?

@@Gyurza03got any proof ?

Bacrack Obama Slightly lmfaoo you’re lying they are way better than cigs do your research you’re lame asf

@@Gyurza03 - That is just a silly comment without ANY data to back that up. The health benefits one gets from switching from tobacco to vaping is beyond remarkable. Any smoker who can't quit and or doesn't want to quit should be encouraged to vape.

Other smoking cessation tools are 10% effective at BEST.

@Sugar T1ts yeh from untrustworthy media sites

Except for the people living in cages to enrich those with more wealth and power than anyone. Sorry about the outburst it's hard to see anything about prison in a vacuum without commenting on our modern day slavery.

i also like how the warden evaded answering those questions and "lets the viewers decide"

Don’t commit felony’s and you won’t be in said cage

@@someonespecial2555 Did you know an estimated 3% of people executed by the state (not jailed, killed) are innocent. Makes you wonder. Jails can sue states if they're not being used to capacity.

Gamer21uboi lol nah. Natural selection. Also vaping is bad if not worse as new studies show

Gamer21uboi ahaha

@@chiefcaptn1922 show me these studies

@@chiefcaptn1922 Only if the juices are with nicotine.

Roblox inhaling anything besides air isn’t good for your lungs brotha

You know he runs the bloc.

Theodore Bear lol

Always that one crackhead friend that tries to hit all the vapes at once. 😌

@@theodorebear6714 Man thats JSAP aint no one run shit in there frfr

He asked an honest question and the jailer handled it well

@@markmcelroy1872 He raised some really obvious questions the viewer would have. If those questions didn't get answered it would seem more like propaganda than asking them and having him answer the questions. Transparency is the key.

It depends on the journalist himself

Ramen has always been the most valuable. You can google ot.

Vox has an interesting video about the role of Ramen as currency in the prison system.

the next big thing will be ramen flavoured e-cigs

Wellies

Cig 100% toonchie even more

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Jake Waugh he is definitely related to Steven hawking thats for sure

"money" is the problem. whats the joke of a mark up? whats the current price per min to use the phone in there, even to speak to your lawyer.

He also give the money the prison makes back to the facility.

@@tommyfoukinshelby7324 i want to believe, nothing translucency and accountability wont solve.

03:51 prison buys each e-cig for $2.00 to $3.00 each then resells them to prisoners for $10.00 to $15.00 each

Glad to see you here, love your vids

Lmfao

NATE I LOVE UR VIDEOS

And they just released a research that points that the liquids used in vaping are as bad as cigarettes.

@@Snoooo link??

So this is basically the first step to rehabilitation?

I was locked up. You'd have to explain to most the other inmates what an instagram is. Most of us just know MMA because we've had to use it.

That's bs that they cost so much! Keep it cheap!!

and then tik tok 😹😭