Lemmy Lemmy:
The reason that people are upset with criminals "not doing their full time" is that they don't understand what "full time" means. But judges do, and over-sentence accordingly. When a judge sentences a guy to 10 years, he/she knows that he/she is really imposing 3-5 years in custody and 3-5 more in the community. And there are sound reasons for doing things this way, that, if those over-reacting bothered to research a little bit, might understand.
I don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water here. Unfortunately as a debate in the larger society it has fast degenerated into an ideological debate with the law 'n order Tories versus the bleeding heart liberals.
Let's see what van Loan will have in his bill. The proposal to eliminate mandatory release to be replaced with a credit system that can be applied to parole might well have some merit.
I don't see abandoning the two-for-one amounting to anything. As you say the judges know what the rules are now. If it becomes a mandatory one-for-one instead of the discretionary system we have now judges might just give shorter sentences.