It was raining in Seattle last Friday. I spent most of the gloomy afternoon in one of Seattle's maximum security Federal Prisons. A good friend of mine has been relocated there for fraud. Truthfully, you might say she is actually in prison for not learning how to discriminate when she chose her husband. She married the wrong man. Her spouse ended up to be an addict with a wicked mean streak. When she finally realized it, he refused to get help for his addiction. So, she divorced him. He decided to go after her.

I am pissed that my government wasted my tax dollars and put her into prison on a first offense; on a loan that she had already paid back, forged signature or not. A federal sentence costs taxpayers $24,000 - $30,000 per year. Wow! Not only is she a great candidate for an ankle bracelet because she would never harm anyone, but she is needed at home to raise her kids. It would also be much cheaper for the state (and you and I) to keep her working and under house arrest. Instead, she was incarcerated and sent to a prison outside of California due to overcrowding in the local prison. What was so puzzling about her assignment was that when she arrived in Seattle, she spent the first few weeks on the floor because they lacked a bed for her in this "less-crowded" prison.

The best gift that this whole fiasco created for my friend was...

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