The editor:
I was watching television news and they were telling about this man that had killed one policeman and some other people. They said that his debt to society was life in prison without parole. Life without parole raised a spot of anger in my mind that I could not get rid of. This man had taken lives without remorse and to repay his debt to society they were giving him for the rest of his life, free room and board, someone to put him to bed at night, get him up in the morning, have his breakfast ready, next he goes to the exercise room, then to lunch, then to school, then to dinner, then to his room and to watch television for the rest of the evening. Then he had someone to watch over him and keep him safe all the time. To pay the entire bill for all this was society; working 16 hours a day. Which one do you think is getting the nasty end of the stick?
Cliff Barker
Morehead
