Thank you. That's a great question.
As I said, I think it's a considerable improvement. I think we have to wait and see how the courts end up interpreting and using it. If they do rely, as they have been wont to do in many aspects of law, upon other factors to exempt—to basically operationalize the concept of cruel and unusual punishment, such as referring to the race or the migrant status of the offender—then this would...because what the safety valve does is it narrows the application to just the facts at hand. However, it still leaves all the discretion with the judge, and many judges are activists.
