After reading Andrea Walker's story about Marge Walker and Goodwill Industries, I felt that it should have appeared in a more prominent place in your newspaper ("Goodwill has grown; so have needs," May 29).
Nonprofits like Goodwill perform outstanding service to the community. We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars incarcerating men and women for various crimes, often with little thought of their need for housing and job-training upon release to help them transition back into society and reduce the possibility of recidivism.
Reducing the number of prisoners who are sent back to jail is important not only because of the tax dollars it saves but also because of the better lives and safer communities that result.
Jeanne C. Hartge, Galesville