If you were going to do the simple arithmetic on this bill, it's not high-tech mathematics. Your starting point for all offenders would be 1.5 to one, because almost nobody wouldn't deserve 1.5 to one. Then one would do an imponderable and guess when a federal offender would be released.
Second--not an imponderable--is dealing with the issue of conditions that many of the other witnesses have talked about. I'm not suggesting that conditions are irrelevant, but I'm suggesting that the starting point for thinking about the kind of credit given should be 1.5 to one, given two other laws that govern how sentences are served. Then it should go up from there to accomplish what I think is supposed to be the goal, which is an equivalent sentence, whether it's served prior to being found guilty or after the person is found guilty.