Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 Source: Wisconsin State Journal (WI) Section: Spectrum, Page F1 Copyright: 2005 Madison Newspapers, Inc. Contact: http://www.wisconsinstatejournal.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/506 Author: Judy Ashford COURTS BLIND, TOO Nothing could put a stunning exclamation point on your excellent series on prisons and corrections than the news story in Sunday's paper about Mirwais Ali being deported to Afghanistan as punishment for violations of the law. In addition to the state's tunnel vision approach to imprisonment, the court system also is unable or unwilling to consider personal circumstances in applying the letter of the law. Deporting Ali in this instance is itself shameful and wrong. Judy Ashford Merrimac