OUTSIDE THE PRISON BOX

Re "No easy fix for state prison crisis," May 25

So the chickens have come home to roost. Jail overcrowding has one
Source: our ridiculous "prohibition" of mind-altering substances.
They should be regulated, not banned. We learned nothing from the
failed experiment of the 1920s.

A host of other evils would disappear if we took this enlightened
step.

Morton Winkel

Palm Desert