Patrick Leahy actually said...

In Rhode Island, under the leadership of Director Wall, we passed reforms that allowed inmates to earn credit toward their sentences.

We should be willing to reevaluate mandatory minimum sentences.

It is a problem that Congress created, but it is also a problem that Congress can fix, and it is high time we do so.

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 ...