It's people like you who breed criminals ("Pull it down, start again", Argus editorial, March 28). Do-gooders are as big a parasite as criminals. We should be building more prisons like Lewes - after all, if people behave they don't have to go to prison.

As for the Humans Rights Act - what about my wife, who was working in Hangleton Newsagency when it was robbed? Did those robbers show any human rights to her or her boss?

When I was at sea, locked up on a ship for months on end, we never had TV, pool tables and God knows what other goodies these people get served up. Ask any ex-seaman and he will tell you he could do time in prison standing on his head and think he was in a five-star hotel.

It's time everyone listened to Smudger Smith, the retired policeman, instead of namby-pambying people in prison.

-E P Savage, Buckley Close, Hove