One of the concerns you hear from opponents of the bill is that we're going to fill up all our jails and it's going to be very expensive. One of the intuitive things I've thought about as I go through this is that ultimately, some of the people who will be serving time under mandatory minimum sentence, given the alternative, would spend a significant amount of that time in prison because they would commit multiple crimes over the same time period.
You may have a person, for example, who's in prison for, let's say, seven years. That same person, getting out early after three, if they had three years for their crime the first time, may be in a year later for another three and be in for six of the seven years anyway.
Is there a calculation—I'm looking again at slide 11—or have there been studies done on the amount of time, over a time span, that individuals in bars 1, 2, and 3 on that graph would have spent in prison, the average amount of total time? I guess this would be much the same as calculating penalty minutes in hockey statistics when a player might have two penalties, a two-minute penalty and a five-minute penalty.