To the editor: Prison instead of treatment. I'm still stunned that a fellow Democrat has publicly advocated prison instead of treatment, and has asked voters to literally vote themselves into prison. The Democratic Party has traditionally championed the causes of poor people and it's the poor who fill our prisons. Why would voters choose prison instead of treatment? Children and adults can go to prison for smoking pot. You can lose your children, your job and your home for using pot. But not cops' kids or judges' kids. [continues 129 words]