Crossbar Electronic Cigarettes

MI — Jamie Mosley is a successful entrepreneur, who started a company, and made a lot of money, selling a product you might not have realized there was a market for: E-cigarettes that are safe for jails. Without the option to sell tobacco in his commissary, the jail saw a new set of problems emerge, like withdrawal issues, more inmate fighting, and an increase in black market trade of tobacco. We also wanted something with a very low voltage so that you couldn’t utilize it for an ignition source to start a fire with.” Crossbar, as Mosley calls his product, is now in some 33 prisons and jails across the county, and is is expected to do $3.5 million in sales this year. It sells to prisons and jails for about $2 to $3, and the jails, in turn, sell it to inmates for between $10-15.

To lose nicotine, tobacco, as well as other drugs I was using, marijuana, Xanax, I’ll say that the e-cigs have helped me tremendously with that”, said Jeremiah Garrison, who has now been in jail for more than 100 days. One new program being funded by the e-cigs is a vocational training program beginning next summer that will help inmates find good jobs after they leave jail. In the interview, Mosley said the ban on tobacco is hard for jailers because some inmates are coming off drugs and cigarettes at the same time, which can cause problems for jail officials and inmates alike. Crossbar e-cigs are sold to jails for $2-3 each, and then some jails sell them to inmates for $10-15 each.

Nicotine is an addictive chemical FDA #3012702831 BSRDC inmates to see sale of e-cigarettes Vaping in jail? New trend created by Eastern Kentucky jailer Greg Crockett, a retired Kentucky State Police trooper from Lexington, was on hand with Crossbar to answer any questions for the board. The e-cigarettes, Crockett said, are sealed with tamper-evident tape, so if inmates attempt to disassemble them, it can be seen. The liquid they contain utilizes a proprietary blend of the vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol typically used in other e-cigarettes, but used in such a way that it generates smaller clouds of exhaled vapor for safety reasons.

Mosley’s CrossBar Electronic Cigarettes supplies specially designed e-cigarettes to the Henderson County Detention Center, as well as to other jails and detention centers across the United States. He couldn’t sell the county’s property since the e-cigarettes were purchased out of the jail’s commissary, so he started CrossBar Electronic Cigarettes. E-cigarettes are allowed inside inmates’ living quarters at the county jail per an amendment to the City of Henderson’s smoking ordinance, which was previously amended this spring to prohibit vaping products in public facilties. The Henderson City Commission approved revising the city’s smoking ordinances as it applies to the Henderson County Detention Center at Tuesday night’s commission meeting.