WE'RE BUILDING JAILS INSTEAD OF NEW SCHOOLS

I was amazed on Oct. 24 when I opened the Register and saw a photo of the
new section of the Theo Lacy jail that is being built-the common area to
include a television. My 5-year-old daughter asked me, "Mommy,is that a
hotel?"

Isn't it ironic that all this money has been spent to add more beds to the
jail, yet at the school where I teach they are adding more and more
bungalows to our playground each year as our school population has more
than doubled in size in the last 10 years and our playground space has been
cut in half?

If we'd put as much money into education as we do into jails don't you
think we wouldn't need all of these jails?

Joan Wiese, Garden Grove