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...have experienced the arrival of gleaming condominiums and professionals of all races. Much of the city?s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games is centered in Washington Park in the South Side. But historically, city-planning efforts have lagged here. Perhaps the most notorious were the Robert Taylor Homes, prison-like warrens of barred windows, circling police and neglected facilities that finally came down in February 2007. Most of those who died during the 1994 heat wave that killed more than 700 people were South Siders. Before Katrina, it was the deadliest natural catastrophe in the U.S. since the 19th...
...through decriminalization would be a better solution than jury nullification. Before Prohibition, many of the drugs ruled illegal today were legal. We didn't have the problems then that we do today - no profit motive, no economic engine driving the illegal-drug economy and fewer people being sent to prison. Lyle La Faver, Middletown, Calif...
Your Dashboard graphic showing the racial breakdown of inmates reminded me why our prison system has deservedly earned us the contempt of the world [March 17]. We incarcerate a larger percentage of the population than any other nation, and the government puts away harmless souls under the guise of fighting its two "wars" on terror and drugs. It's a tragic irony that freedom is now a mere buzzword in a land once regarded by many as a beacon to the world. Gordon Wilson, LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF...
Thank goodness someone had the fortitude to address this horrific problem now facing our society. Incarcerating drug users only intensifies the problems of drug use. Addicts who have served time in prison not only still face the nightmare of trying to quit but also have a criminal record that multiplies their difficulties if they try to become productive members of society. We add the terrible handicap of a prison record to those who often begin with the disadvantage of lack of education and come from an environment of poverty. If this country would decriminalize drugs and regulate and tax their...
...through decriminalization would be a better solution than jury nullification. Before Prohibition, many of the drugs ruled illegal today were legal. We didn't have the problems then that we do today--no profit motive, no economic engine driving the illegal-drug economy and fewer people being sent to prison...