I have to tell you that I believed at the time that there were some things for which people were going to jail because their activity was beyond that which would have resulted in, properly, a suspended sentence and probation. However, jail was probably too harsh for some of these people, in that it was a sentence over ninety days. They couldn't get an intermittent sentence, they were going to lose their job, it might have affected the family, they might have had other mitigating factors. So I believe we were lacking for that in-between area, and that's the void conditional sentences have filled.
On October 16th, 2006. See this statement in context.