No One Deserves Dioxins And Pcbs

I offer as an addendum to Hal Grano's article "Area Toxic Dump Fought" n the October, 1989 AGENDA, that in addition to the rural population of the area in question, there are "forgotten residents." Milan is the location of a medium security federal prison which houses some 1,400 men. While the issue of penal reform is a thorny issue, once incarcerated by the state, does not the health and welfare of these people become our responsibility?

Disenfranchised by society, these men do not even have the ability to "vote with their feet" if they feel their welfare threatened. Already used as captive labor for the war machine by prison industries (UNICOR), now these men would be forced to drink water and to breathe air laced with Chemical wastes.

Even convicted felons don't deserve PCB's and dioxin.

Paul Robert Green

(A former prisoner at FCI Milan)

OXFORD, WI