Justice
The recent release of Michael Milken to an area halfway house adds to the old adage “the bigger the crime the smaller the sentence.”
In rural Arkansas during the Great Depression, a father of four wrote a hot check for $3.50 to buy food for his family.
Arrested, he spent two years on a chain gang at Tucker State Prison for having committed an act of desperation to feed four hungry children.
Not having the finest legal staff money could buy, unable to cut a deal with the prosecution, not knowing powerful people who could influence the judge and certainly without a billion dollars in the bank to ease the pain of his confinement, this “criminal” learned the hard way the Golden Rule. (Those with the gold rule!)
Incidentally, the hot check writer was my father.
KENNETH C. SISCO
Westminster
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