It takes some chutzpah to commit a crime, get sentenced to prison, then complain about the poor conditions and ask to be let out.

After all, prison is not supposed to be fun. Or pleasant. That's why they are called "prisons."

So, many of us were not too sympathetic when some prisoners at the Moose Lake Correctional Facility filed a lawsuit to get released from prison due to the pandemic.

But America is a nation of laws. It is our respect for those laws, and the process of creating, enforcing, and applying them, that make America great. While it's sometimes difficult to admit, such lawsuits...