The issue that I would add to that, though, is that there's little comfort to victims and families who have lost loved ones when people are sent back into the community untreated and who have not had an opportunity to engage in rehabilitation. I don't think we want to talk about sentencing in terms of increasing the sentence necessarily as a punishment, but as an opportunity to engage in rehabilitation, which supposedly is the mandate of the corrections system.
The average sentence in this country is 30 days. Almost 30% of people are sentenced to two weeks or less. You don't engage in treatment when you're sending people in and out, in and out, 20, 40, or 60 times.
So we're spinning our wheels and accomplishing nothing with the status quo.