10/13/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"I think the main drivers of this prison growth are front-end sentencing laws that were enacted by us in Congress, like the proliferation of mandatory minimum sentences."
"For shame."
"It is overall because of the quality of our judiciary that John Adams' vision that the United States be a Government of laws and not men still holds true today."
"Overburdened judges almost by definition cannot provide the level of time and care and reflection they would like to for each case before them."