PRISON & TREATMENT

To the editor: Prison instead of treatment. I'm still stunned that a fellow
Democrat has publicly advocated prison instead of treatment, and has asked
voters to literally vote themselves into prison.

The Democratic Party has traditionally championed the causes of poor people
and it's the poor who fill our prisons. Why would voters choose prison
instead of treatment?

Children and adults can go to prison for smoking pot. You can lose your
children, your job and your home for using pot. But not cops' kids or
judges' kids.

Children and adults are maimed and raped in prisons. It just happened in
Lucas County. Come out into the real world, Chris. Listen to children
crying for their parents and parents crying for their children. Listen to
10-year-olds crying in prison for simply punching an older brother.

You think it won't work in Ohio? It costs too much money? America is
spending hundreds of billions of dollars on an evil war against its own
citizens. I hope the voters will give it a try.

All my life, I have advocated against all drugs. I've never even used tea
or coffee. But most voters are not perfect like you and I, Chris.

Vote for help, not for torture.

Vincent Yancey, Curtice