Tales from the West Texas Dust

This week (since I have almost nothing to write about as I await some very special articles and interviews that we are working on just for you here at the Suite), we are going to take a much-needed opportunity to just do a little house-cleaning and make a couple of necessary announcements that you need to be aware of:

[(SECTION I.) LETTER TO THE EDITOR]

I received an interesting comment pertaining to our "Behind The Bars" series articles that you might find fascinating. Jacqueline Snow of Dallas left us a comment saying:

"Mr, Holley: ...My brother, Casey Elliott, was murdered three years ago this [past January]. His girlfriend, Helen Moore, poisoned him with morphine, then dismembered him and spread his body parts over three counties. She pled guilty to murder in order not to get the death penalty and is currently in Gatesville [the place that has most of the facilities in Texas to house women inmates]. I just recently found out that she has married another prisoner in Huntsville. She met him on the Internet. I have a serious problem with the fact that our tax dollars are paying for these prisoners to have access to the Internet. I have a bigger problem with the fact that they are allowed to enjoy the same priliveges that good, honest, law abiding citizens are allowed. Please help me to understand this.

Sincerely , Jacqueline"

EDITOR'S RESPONSE: [DISCLAIMER: The opinions and views of the Editor are not neccssary the views of the management and staff of I5IVE Communications, Inc. and should be interpreted only as the personal views of the editor.]

Jacqueline: I just received an interesting e-mail the other day from one of my personal e-mail contacts that probably asks a similar question. The e-mail was in response to the death of a young child at the hands of a rapist in which the writer felt very numb and in shock over what had happened--and understandably so. The other day, I also received in my snail mail a fundraising letter from Charles Colson of Prison Fellowship. I quote:

"'If it could happen here, it could happen anywhere.' That's what they said in Paducah, Kentucky--a small Southern town where most people know each other and few lock their doors. Its downtown looks like Mayberry.

"But its innocence died about a year and a half ago, on the morning a skinny Heath High School freshman walked toward a group of students, pulled out a gun, and started firing. Five kids were wounded, and three of the girls--who had been part of a before school prayer meeting--died.

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