Insomnigreen

Hello Eric! Thank you for taking the time to answer questions about harsh drug laws that you took part in creating.

As a former correctional officer of a State run Maximum Security Prison, I have seen first hand what happens to those that are incarcerated. Though most of these inmates had committed largely heinous crimes to end up in Maximum Security, I was surprised to find that their criminal "career" first started out getting arrested for petty marijuana offenses. It basically progressed from there into more serious crimes.

What are your thoughts on the privatization of prisons and the vested interests to keep those beds filled?

In my early 20's, I performed UC operations with a county task force and state DOJ when working as a surveillance officer for a casino. We had a severe meth problem that the City PD wouldn't do anything about. Despite great surveillance footage, they just didn't really care.

There was one dealer that I wanted to nail to the wall because he was a convicted sex offender (Sexual Penetration Of Victim With Foreign Object By Force). Unfortunately, he knew better than to deal in the casino with the amount of cameras we had around inside as well as the parking lot.

He kept trying to get our UC to go off-site but it was just too risky and we had to let him go.

Did you ever have a dealer that was the "one that got away" that still bugs you?

Edit - Grammar