Pubdate: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 Source: Kingsport Times-News (TN) Copyright: 1998-2001 Kingsport Publishing Corporation Website: www.timesnews.net Contact: http://www.timesnews.net/index.cgi?CONTEXT=cat&BISKIT=4266578273&category=18 Address: P.O. Box 470, 701 Lynn Garden Drive, Kingsport, TN 37662 Phone: 423.246.8121 Author: Rev. Roy Corbin Notes: Will not publish letters in print editions from online users who do not reside in print circulation area, unless they are former residents or have some current connection to Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. We invite such users to post comments in our online forum, Village Voices, which is linked from timesnews.net. Telephone call made on every e-mailed letter. Letters which lack a phone number and address will be deleted. OXYCONTIN WOES I am writing to comment on your news article concerning the OxyContin Task Force. I am pleased to see action coming forth after holding the meeting last month at Lee High School attended by hundreds of residents. Less than two months ago, one of the Sunday school classes at St. Charles United Methodist Church witnessed a drug deal transaction in the church parking lot between 10 and 11 a.m. I would hope that the Task Force includes residents who have endured this type of crime on a daily basis and have been crying out for help for many years, to no avail. I also hope that someone is following up on the idea of a Citizens Judicial Review Committee similar to the one formed in Kentucky. It's time we held accountable the system which continues to turn loose habitual offenders and seems to protect the guilty rather that the innocent. Thanks to the Times-News for your coverage in our area of St. Charles. Rev. Roy Corbin St. Charles, Va.