Dear Editor:The working poor and middle class are sitting in our overcrowded jails today.
As a registered voter, veteran and graduate student, I see this injustice system as a new form of terrorism.
My good friend told me that half the people sitting in the overcrowded Carter County jails should not even be in jail, and I agree.
I am ashamed that America has become a police state where you can be arrested over a traffic ticket or a joint.
We have a runaway injustice system when 1 in 32 Americans are on parole, in jail or on probation.
In conclusion I am disgusted, as a Christian and as an American that this is happening in America. And you should be, too.
Martin L. King once said, “Injustice in America anywhere is injustice in America everywhere.”
This injustice must be stopped before it cannot be stopped.
Clarence Darrow once said, “True patriotism hates injustice in its own land, more than anywhere else.”
–Tommy Birchfield
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