Jail Overcrowding

Letter writer Glenn Broad (April 11) castigates Ramona Ripston and the ACLU for being concerned with jail overcrowding.

A great many of the people in the county jail system have not been convicted of anything, but only have been charged and are awaiting their day in court.

Unless our government has been overthrown overnight and a dictatorship installed, we still operate under the principle of “innocent until proven guilty,” and it is sad to know that this simple, basic, constitutional protection of due process is conveniently forgotten in the overcrowding debate.

MICHAEL T. MANNING

North Hills