Schools Before Jail
The Santa Ana City Council is requesting a $13.9-million loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (The Times, March 7). This is to help build the new $107-million city jail. HUD funds are designed to provide housing and urban development funds. Well, I suppose jails are a form of housing.
Then two days later, “O.C. Leaders Ask Assembly for Help to Rescue Schools” (March 9). Since children are the future of our nation, as well as Orange County, am I the only one who thinks schools should have priority over jails and prisons? Paraphrasing a ‘60s slogan, “When will the jails, instead of schools, have to hold bake sales?”
Would that it were so!
RICHARD A. HEIN
Fullerton
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