I might be a lefty leaning pinko greenie, etc, but surely I’m not alone in thinking that toilet paper is a basic human right? Well, not in Montgomery County, Maryland USA it’s not.
United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) which represents about 8000 government employees has released a memo with cost-cutting measures and it suggests, among other things, restricting the amount of toilet paper issued to inmates of jails.
The county spends ‘‘hundreds of thousands of dollars” annually to repair plumbing because inmates use it [toilet paper] to clog their toilets.
Issuing a maximum of three rolls a week to each inmate would avoid some of those costs.
Read the full article here.
I can just imagine the black market in Montgomery County jails: smack, cigarettes and bog roll. They’ll have to get their mules to smuggle it in one sheet at a time so as to avoid detection.
