This is from 2008 - but I felt it was worthwhile to post tonight. I do not have the words...

[The Straight Story]

See this first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ipJ0A63JOs&feature=related


Child's Dying Wish Going Unfulfilled

For very sick little girls, sometimes a father can be the best medicine there is.

But the heartbroken family of a 10-year-old Nebraska girl diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, who is not expected to live through the end of the month, say the Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied the child's dying wish: that her incarcerated father be furloughed to be by his child's bedside when she dies.

Jason Charles Yaeger is serving the final year of a five-year sentence for a drug conviction in a minimum security prison camp in South Dakota, three and a half hours from his daughter, Jayci.

He has pleaded repeatedly with prison officials to honor the bureau's apparent policy of allowing furloughs and transfers under "extraordinary'' circumstances, but has been rebuffed time and again, he told ABC News in a telephone interview from prison today. He is scheduled to be transferred in August to a halfway house just an hour from his daughter's bedside, but prison officials have refused to transfer him early, he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4490468&page=1

Jayci Yaeger Dies After Seeing Imprisoned Father

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A 10-year-old girl has died, just a day after her wish to see her father was granted.

Jayci Yaeger's imprisoned father, Jason, went to her bedside Wednesday -- a visit federal authorities allowed only after being deluged with letters and phone calls from across the nation.

http://www.ketv.com/r/15731048/detail.html

a visit federal authorities allowed only after being deluged with letters and phone calls from across the nation.

You and I can make a difference, we just need to be aware of what is going on.

[malaise]

1. Why do governments lock up citizens for drugs?

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

7. If you sell a little pot you're the scum of the earth.

If you steal millions from the U.S. public, you'll likely get a giant tax break and subsidies.

[digonswine]

2. I am pretty sure--

that this will be normal for as long as we are here. I don't get people who say that people are generally good, at heart. I can think of few people that don't have a fucked up-really fucked illogical hateful view on SOMETHING or other. The war on drugs is just another ace in the deck for the manipulators of mankind. They will squeeze every last dime from the counties and states to perpetuate this nonsense. For every person who is aware of what is going on, there are two who think in phrases--do the crime-do the time!, etc. It is still worthwhile, though.

[housewolf]

3. Our judicial system has torned so punative

It's unbelievable and appalling to me how strident they have become

[sabrina 1]

4. Cruel, beyond belief.

And we have the gall to lecture other countries about humane treatment of their citizens. This is a horror story and to think it happens here should cause outrage, but the Fox/Rightwing propaganda machine pumping out hateful 'law and order' rhetoric 24 hours a day, has taken a real toll on this country.

[BlueIris]

5. My thoughts exactly. nt

[FourScore]

6. Thank you so much for this The Straight Story.

:cry: