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LETTERS, Page 8No-Frills Prisons
Congratulations on your story about the overcrowding in our
prisons (NATION, May 29). As an inmate of the Louisiana State
Penitentiary, I have seen firsthand some of the conditions you
wrote about. Here in Louisiana, authorities are trying to cope with
the situation by building more prisons to handle the ever
increasing criminal population. When will people realize that the
best solution is to stop handing out such long sentences and start
rehabilitating prisoners? The theory that anybody is expendable is
crazy.
David F. Crowell Jr., No. 121240
Angola, La.
I have read and reread the story on prison overcrowding, and
each time I get madder. I am one of the inmates in the Texas
department of corrections. Texas will tell you how much it spends
on us, but does Texas ever talk about the money it makes from us?
No! Here in the Eastham Unit, I work in the garment factory making
shirts for T.D.C. inmates. And don't forget about all the jobs that
convicts create for the profit of other people. Let's face it:
Texas needs its prisons and the inmates who are in them.
Daniel Louis Johnson, No. 465571
Lovelady, Texas
Our prison system is a disgrace. To deal with the issue, crude,
dirt-floor prisons should be set up in the desert, and they ought
to contain a minimum of stimuli and luxuries for the lawbreakers.
TV, card games and pinup posters should be eliminated. Living
conditions within prison walls have to be far worse than those of
the outside world so that the criminal will seriously consider
reform.
Ernie Gosteli
Bridgeport, Conn.
Are you surprised at your bulging prisons? Think of your broken
homes, poor school systems, lack of discipline everywhere and
decadence all around. Crime prevention begins in the family.
(The Rev.) Koos Van Lent
Korschenbroich, West Germany