THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUG SENTENCING

I want to applaud Ben Fulton for his well-put and very insightful
honest words ["Mangled Sentence," Note From the Editor, Jan. 26, City
Weekly]. The justice system really has it totally backwards when it
comes to drug sentencing. My husband is serving a 24-year sentence
for drug conspiracy--there was never any evidence, nothing found
while he was under surveillance for over a year, nothing except the
word of others who were caught doing things and got years cut off
their sentences in exchange for implicating him.

So the rapists, molesters, murderers continue to go up for parole
each year, while the federal system has no parole. Without people
like Fulton in the media, citizens would remain ignorant of the way
the system works. They think everyone is eligible for parole. Nope,
just inmates of the state.

Thank you for your part in educating your readers who may finally
start to realize why America is becoming the laughing stock of the
world when it comes to how we deal with drugs.

- --Tara Bogle

Detroit, Mich.