Yes, there's no question, depending on the level of need of the individuals, that it gives us more time to work with them. I don't want to necessarily advocate that you should be always striving for the longest sentence possible, because there's enough research that says that itself can also be detrimental, depending on individuals, but there is no question. We need to look at how we stabilize those types of individuals and how we get them prepared for what the rest of their life is going to look like. We need to work on some of the problem areas that they bring into my institutions, based on their life experience, and we need to try in the best way possible to get them to lead a law-abiding life within the walls before they are even considered for release into the community.
On March 9th, 2015. See this statement in context.