I never took any phone messages for him. The fact is he never conducted his illegal activities in my presence. They knew who the drug dealer was. The criminal justice system thought that harsher sentences under the mandatory minimum sentencing would help win the war against drugs, but it isn't. All it is doing is locking up more people, and causing children to grow up without mothers and fathers.
Society needs to realize that our legal system has failed.
We all know that society cannot operate without law and order. But what society needs to realize is that they have made the criminal justice system into a big business. Until society addresses the causes of why they are building more prisons and locking up more people, the legal system is going to continue to lock up even more people. First the legal system has to admit that what they have tried has failed. There are a lot of people incarcerated now with lengthy sentences and not because they were kingpins in big drug rings.