going to get out. when they get out, they will have the deficit of their record, they have the deficit of what happened to them when they were in primp, they will have precious few resources available to begin their lives again. what the attorney general suggested today is and i think it s fascinating. he s focusing on a little discussed area of authority and power. and that s prosecutorial discretion. he says it s not about end runs around the law. prosecutors have the ability to decide what they re going to charge a criminal defendant with. understood he says our prosecutors, u.s. attorneys need to use that charging power in a smart way. they need to use it to do just what judge pataki said to, make sure that you come hard against those who is have the record, who have been involved in violent criminal activity but not against people who have a clean record who are involved in nonvi leapt activity. you don t use the drug kingpin statues meant to get the worst of the worst against