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In Rick Pearson`s lead article Jan. 17 about the state building prisons, he writes, ”where are they going to put the POWs?”

As a prisoner of war in World War II, I resent convicted drug offenders being referred to as POWs. We may be waging a war on drugs but convicted drug offenders are not POWs, they are criminals.