NUNN IS EXAMPLE OF THOSE CAUGHT IN TRAP

I am writing because for years I have been silent. Today I made a conscious
decision to break the silence in regard to American drug laws, especially
in reference to African-American and Hispanic men and women.

As I read the story regarding Michael Nunn, my heart was filled with
sadness because he is yet another statistic of a young man caught up in a
vicious cycle of illegal drugs in America. Another young man that has been
kicked to the curb, who fell between the cracks and has lost the next 24
years of his life in a system that has been set up to trap what I believe
is a targeted segment of the American population.

Prisons are filled to capacity and over because many men and women are
given sentences that are unbelievable in comparison to child molesters,
rapist and in some cases those who commit murder. Those that are filling
the prisons do not have the means nor the methods to bring illegal drugs
into America.

I do not condone the actions of the young men and women who consciously
make decisions to break the law, but I hate the system that sets them up to
fall prey to the life of illegal drugs. A system that makes illegal drugs
available and sucks the life out of those who fall prey to it.

God help us all.

Mozella Stokes

Davenport