INMATE REHABILITATION

Editor, Times-Union:

Re Rehabilitation, Letters, Aug. 15:

Inmate Charles Robinson evidently feels that imprisonment is a suitable
fate for those who ingest certain drugs. Hogwash. We have a right to ingest
any drug we've a mind to. There is no more reason to punish drug users and
dealers today than there was in the past to hang witches, lynch blacks or
gas Jews.

His embarrassingly ingratiating letter reads like one that might have been
written by an inmate of a Nazi death camp who is gratefully looking forward
to obtaining his release after converting from Judaism to Christianity.

Alan and Eleanor Randell Victoria, BC, Canada via e-mail