NO NEW JAIL

To the editor:

How can any legislator even think of burdening the taxpayers for a $40
million new jail while schools are cutting teachers? (Jail
Overcrowding March 18).

We are looking at double-digit increase for school taxes; double digit
cuts in teaching positions and the legislators not only want a new
jail they want to increase the capacity by 100%. The legislators
should be asking what crimes are filling the jail? Violent crime is
lowest since 1973 (Sept. 9, 2002).

We already know what is shorting our kids' education funds. The
politically selected war on cannabis.

The Rockefeller Drug Laws have shown us you build a jail cell, you
pass a law to fill it!

Get the facts.

Teachers Against Prohibition (TAP) http://www.TeachersAgainstProhibition.org

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition www.leap.cc/

LARRY SEGUIN

Lisbon