Here I am again to battle back at the nauseating ignorance of some of the comments on ADN articles. 

This article is beautiful. It is a wonderful look at a tiny ray of light on our sadly misguided prison system. We have people in this country like AKJimBob who believe that prison is luxurious, and want it to be a medieval hell. The reality is almost the exact opposite of his fantasy image of prison. 

We like to call our prisons "corrections" facilities in the sad notion that we are "correcting" something. We turn people loose into a society that shuns them from employment. We turn them loose without job skills. We turn them loose without having learned about the virtues of learning and growing. 

"Wasteful spending" JimBob decries. Well, if a pittance, a minuscule drop of coins to improve a life in the midst of carceral hell mostly full of addicts is wasteful, then let us waste. Let us waste and let the flowers of hope grow taller than the wretched weeds of hate of the ignorant.

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