Others to consider in commutations

If Dick Durbin and our illustrious governor would like to commute the sentence of the dishonorable former Gov. George Ryan, will they also be pleading the cases of the 15 law enforcement officials who have been arrested and charged in the recent FBI sting for assisting the entrepreneurial drug dealers of northern Illinois? Obviously their families will suffer and will miss them at Christmas time if they are convicted, and they or their spouses may become ill while they are in prison. These people have served their communities, they probably weren't bad from the beginning when they took their jobs. Lord knows their family names have been damaged. So by the standards these politicians are using, these crooked law enforcement officers should serve probably no more than say 5 percent of any sentence they are given, and we could probably end prison overcrowding in all 50 states of this great nation. Or do they want leniency for George Ryan so they may have a better shot themselves if they ever go to prison?

Timothy Lorman

West Chicago