I absolutely agree, there are unjust laws and people in prison who have no business being there. We also have an entrenched bureaucracy, and an irretrievably corrupt government. What to do, what to do? What if we could release all the nonviolent drug offenders, and replace them with anyone in government who has any authority at all? It would be a start.

There was a poll, a while ago, the outcome of which said that a majority of Americans thought they would be better served by people randomly chosen from the phone book than what we have now. I think we would be better served by people randomly selected from among the prison population, than what we have now.