Pubdate: Sun, 11 May 2003
Source: Oklahoman, The (OK)
Copyright: 2003 The Oklahoma Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.oklahoman.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/318
Author: Johnny Wood
Note: Wood is an inmate at Jackie Brannon Correctional Center in McAlester.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

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
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