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Vol. 71/No. 7      February 19, 2007

 
Letters
 
Prisoner I
A federal report shows 2.2 million Americans are now in prison, with 4.8 million more on parole or probation. This means one out of every 32 adults are under direct government control.

The “Land of the Free” has long led the world in the oppression of its own people. Merciless and tyrannical, with only 5 percent of the world’s population, it confines more than 25 percent of the world’s criminals. Either Americans are the most evil people to ever plague the earth, or the system is rotten to the core.

Another report issued by the American Bar Association in September says that over one-third (22) of the last 60 prisoners executed by the state of Florida had been found to be completely innocent by DNA. These figures strongly indicate nearly half of those now in prison must be innocent of their crimes.

A prisoner
Mayo, Florida

Prisoner II
I am writing in hope of having you assist me by making available a complimentary subscription to your newspaper. I am a prisoner confined here in the Texas Prison System and was allowed to read copies of your newspaper.

If at all possible, please provide me with the Spanish edition, as my primary language is Spanish, as I am not from the United States. I would pay for a subscription if the Texas Prison System would pay inmates. As you know it does not.

Please also let me know if you can provide me with any books in Spanish addressing the socialist struggle in Central and South America.

A prisoner
Iowa Park, Texas
 
 
 
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