What is your opinion on the effectiveness of the death penalty and the state of prisons in your area? How do you feel about the public's role in the issue?
The death penalty doesn't work and our prisons are failures. Measure 11 has backfired. 1,000 men in one of our smaller prisons and maybe 100 ever get a visit or a phone call in their three to 20 year stay. No actual job training or educational program available, horrible food and inadequate medical care. Out, awaiting them a huge bill, a scarlet "F", and no posssibility of employment in anything but the some minimum wage part time job. That was done by voters, not the politicians. I think Salem is a corrupt, incompetent, mess. But those pols aren't the only brainless fools. We are, too.