Jayci Yaeger died this morning of brain cancer. She was 10-years-old and had been diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 3. But cancer wasn’t the only battle this young girl had to fight. Thanks to the “justice” of our criminal justice system, Jayci and her family spent the last month of her life battling with a warden over Jayci’s right to spend the last dies of her 10-year-long life with her father. Jason Yaeger is serving the final year of a five-year sentence for a drug conviction in a minimum security prison camp in South Dakota, a 3½-hour drive from his daughter who was in a Lincoln, Nebraska. And Yaeger had the nerve to ask for a furlough or transfer to a halfway house so he could be closer to his terminally ill daughter. But luckily, the Warden, JD Whitehead, who sits on the board of the United Way, denied the request because he followed the law, which only allows transfers under “extraordinary” circumstances. And there is obviously no extraordinary circumstance in this story. Nothing to see here folks, just a girl dying of cancer who wants to see her dad. Just a guy who is getting out of jail in August, who wants to see his daughter before she dies. Keep it moving folks.

Seriously, who do these Yaegers think they are? And where do they think they live? In America? In a democracy? In the land of the free?

Mr. Warden Whitehead, I hope you’re reading this. I want to commend you for not caving into Jason Yaeger’s request for handouts.

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