Pubdate: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 Source: Amarillo Globe-News (TX) Copyright: 2006 Amarillo Globe-News Contact: http://amarillonet.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/13 Author: Suzanne Wills TOO MANY VEGETATE IN PRISON NEEDLESSLY There is little to add to Ronald Fraser's excellent July 26 column except amen! Relying on prisons to solve social problems is hugely counterproductive. Harry Whittington - who was famously shot by Dick Cheney - once put it very succinctly: "Prisons are to crime what greenhouses are to plants." Suzanne Wills Drug Policy Forum of Texas Dallas - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman