Yes, I would.
The evidence is overwhelming, not just in Texas, but in every jurisdiction where it's been studied, that putting more people in prison for longer periods of time has no salutary effect upon public safety and only a negative effect on offender reintegration. One of the reasons why the least restrictive measures principle is so important is exactly because of what Texas has learned. Imprisonment is extremely costly. The state, in expending valuable taxpayer resources, should use the least restrictive measures when it comes to the most costly form of corrections, incarceration. That's why the fact that the act eviscerates all language in the act to the least restrictive measures is so shocking. On what possible basis would the commissioner justify initiatives that cannot meet the least restrictive measures consistent with public safety and public accountability, including our money?