There is a searing story over at MAP (Media Awareness Project:
www.mapinc.org an anti-Drug War, Inc. resource)
Below is an essay contributed by Tony Lamb. Mr. Lamb went to prison in 1988 as a 17-year-old for two relatively minor, non-violent offenses. In prison he remains today.
The sordid picture that Mr. Lamb paints of prison life should be of concern to everyone living in Missouri. Some will say anyone who lands in prison deserves everything he gets. This position is wrong for both legal and moral reasons, of course. But even if you put the law and morals aside, subjecting offenders to brutal prison conditions is wrong for purely practical reasons.(...)
Crime and Punishment
MAP bands people together as a resource for writing Letters To The Editor in opposition to the War On Drugs, Inc. They collect and archive stories (generally in print outlets) on the subject of drug reform, mainly in the US and Canada. "Newshawks" submit stories as they find them to add to the giant archive and the daily report, from which letters are usually launched.