Today, more than ever before in the history of our penal system, our people are being sent to prisons all across the United States for such offenses as drug possession, traffic violations and other minor scrapes with the law. Apparently the American public has decided by popular vote that incarceration is the cure all for our countries complex crime problems. However, now we are facing prison overcrowding like never before in the history of The …showed first 75 words of 1778 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1778 total…the drugs. Meanwhile, the middle class citizen keeps after the Government for some kind of control and they decide to people of the United States. Not the Bolivians or Central Americans. I hate drugs and what they are doing to our children. We can try to teach our children that drugs are bad, and we can keep throwing anyone that has contact with drugs in prison, but what is going to happen in the end?