So, "little bobby"...you are a senior citizen like me?
Although I do not like Rand Paul at all---he has all the charm of a nose booger---it was Rand Paul who first introduced the idea of freeing non-violent offenders and I found myself agreeing. Pragmatists who have studied our over-populated and very expensive prison system have come to the same conclusion, that continuing to incarcerate prisoners without any history of violence is counter-productive, sometimes inciting these nonviolent people to becoming violent just to survive in a prison population.
Our next U.S. President Hillary Clinton, herself a former moderate Republican in her college days, agrees that there should be some prison reforms, but not even once has Hillary Clinton proposed to "empty our prison system." In Republican-governed states like Arizona, there has been a move to for-profit prisons that is alarming when one uncovers that the for-profit prison company's owner is a big campaign contributor to Governor Brewer and they have collusion-inspiring ties that influence the supposed "crack down" on harsh immigration laws which the courts have ruled require racial profiling---all to bring more profits to these profit-grubbing private prisons. This is a bad direction for America to take in more ways than one.
Prison reforms, putting nonviolent offenders to work to make restitution, better screening of the guards hired, cracking down on contraband routinely smuggled into prisons...all of these are changes supported by Candidate Hillary (and by Rand Paul). Why would you hype this effort into your hysterical rant?