THE EDITOR, Sir:IN RESPONSE to 'Leonardo Davinci' (March 7), if a person is sentenced to 10-20 years in prison, he must have done something very bad, so we can conclude the monster is already born. This person was probably the kind who had neither respect nor responsibility to society and showed it no mercy.
It would be great if you could be well fed, bedded, shod and trained during the course of your incarceration. It would be even better if all Jamaicans were. What you are lacking in prison is the very things that many law-abiding Jamaicans have to live without.
In short, a society with limited resources cannot prioritise its criminals. Anyone serving 20 years will be middle-aged when released. The money is better spent on a young man with no baggage who can enter the work market at 18 years old and repay his society over a 45-year work life.
You are responsible for your own actions; you are beyond the formative years of life, so what you choose to do with the rest of your life is in your own hands.
I am, etc.,
DOREEN MCGANN
doreenmcgann@netscape.net
Järfälla, Sweden
Via Go-Jamaica
