I just finished reading an article in the Sun Journal about Lisa Hanson and crack (April 25). When are the police and the judicial system in Lewiston going to realize that people who are into drugs as much as she has been are not going to be rehabilitated? After all, as the story said, “She has been released from prison several times only to return shortly for violating her probation.”

Just how long are the officials who make the laws and the people enforcing the laws going to keep doing the same routine over and over – keep sending drug dealers and such to prison for short periods of time with probation after they get out?

I say give those convicted of breaking drug laws 20 years in prison, and let it be 20 years with no plea bargaining involved in the sentence.

Of course, that would never happen, I know. There are too many lawyers involved with plea bargaining drug dealers out of the sentences they should get.

The judicial system we have in this country is pathetic. Laws are made, enforced by police who arrest people for crimes, then the lawyers get involved and plea bargain the crimes down to lesser charges. It’s just a hopeless, never-ending cycle. It’s all a waste of time and money.

Clarence Turner, Auburn