have a seat at the table when sentence reform comes about. We are told that democracy is dying. Here's one way to revive it: Support ballot initiatives in the various states lengthen sentences for violent offenses. Something tells me that you will not support such efforts and will instead call for us to instead listen to the experts and their recommendations, which have always worked swimmingly. Oh, and you'll undoubtedly throw in some bastardized version of a verse from the Book of Matthew.