Some times one has to wonder where logic and justice connect, if at all? I have so much to learn about the justice system, believe me I know that, but from what I have learned already I am convinced that once the shroud is lifted on the secret workings of it all logic and justice may be a hard connection to make. Why do we have laws? To keep people safe. Why do we have prison? To teach people a lesson for breaking our laws. What if the lesson is learned in record time? Then why are we wasting our tax dollars locking up people who could be productive citizens? Okay and now you are wondering what am I ranting about exactly, well . . . Another Dallas Morning News article that makes me sad related to the prison system and Dallas. In Dallas we are used to cases now where people are wrongfully convicted but what about when they are wrongfully released? An inmate named Willis Reed was released in Dallas after 5 years (his sentence was 14) and the release was due to a clerical error in his paperwork that said his sentence was 5 instead of 14. (what the article doesn’t say and I wonder is how authorities figured out their error, since he proclaimed it an error to begin with and they checked and told him it wasn’t and let him go) Point being Reed enrolled in college, got married, bought a car, started to build his own version of the American dream and was then told he has to go back to prison because his release was a clerical error and then when he came up for parole the board denied him saying he still poses a threat to society.How long does one have to prove one’s self changed? It is kind of a leap of faith but that’s just a fact. We can’t lock up everyone who has committed a crime more than once and through away the key. Aside from the obvious moral issues its just not cost effective.