COSTLY REVENGE

To The Editor:

In response to Jerry W. Sanders ("Your Views," May 2): I'm in a minimum
security prison serving 12 years for selling $20 worth of marijuana to a
paid informant. The reason he did this was to keep out of prison on the
same charges. The reason I'm in prison is because I wouldn't do the same to
someone else.

I'm 47 years old and in poor health. I've added it up and it's going to
cost Sanders and other taxpayers over $100,000 to take care of me through
my sentence. There is no justice in the "war on drugs." The public will
soon see that this is a war on people, your family and friends. It's a war
on poor and oppressed people. Revenge? Perhaps it's mine through the high
cost of housing me.

Johnny Wood, McAlester