[Peace] jail phone issues

[Susan Davis]

Sandra,

it's obvious from last night's editorial in the News Gazette that you have 
hit a nerve and had a major impact. Foreman is clearly arguing that in this 
cold world nobody should have their taxes raised to pay for stiffer 
sentences, higher bail, Piland's overcharging, and the general growth of 
incarceration. it really has less to do with phones, although a more humane 
phone system is surely possible, than with who'll pay for the kind of 
society we have. the people who should pay these costs are the families of 
the incarcerated.  That's his argument.   in the end, we will have poor 
people paying rent on their own jail cells.  How very 18th-century!

you did a great job --

Susan