[moehoward]

"More social engineering by decree."

If you mean that Mandatory Minimums are social engineering, and tweaking the conditions on those are MORE social engineering, then, I guess...

"This is not out of compassion, it is a campaign stunt for the dims"

As if the "Get Tough on Crime" mandatory minimums weren't campaign stunts to begin with.

[snarkytart]

This is about getting as many black men out of prison as possible, even if they’ve done violence. Period.

[pfflier]

The dims will be pandering their 2016 campaign to the youth vote very similar to their "War on Women" strategy.

Two hot button issues for that age group will be pot legalization or at least relaxing the enforcement policies and the other will be student loan relief