Everybody gets a voice

Got a letter from an inmate at the Adams County Detention Facility last week. Apparently, he filed a grievance because he felt they were wasting money leaving security flood lights on at the jail for all hours of the night. He felt it was a waste of energy My first instinct was to quip "Yeah, why don't they take down those unsightly fences too!" But my gallows humor has given way to a sort of renewed respect for our right to speak. Yes, even in jail (albeit his grievance was responded to with a polite but terse reply that it wasn't going to change) folks have the right to air their concerns. Amazing!