Currently the United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the world. Nearly 2,300,000 million Americans are currently imprisoned, and many more suffer the collateral consequences of a past criminal conviction.
Both Congress and the Executive Branch should initiate a study of the current state of criminal law, focusing on the low-hanging fruit of drug policy reform and the explosion of federal criminal law. This should focus on indentifying what are the problems the law seeks to solve, and whether the law is actually solving those problems.
Government should be willing to challenge the basic assumptions underlying our criminal law which make the United States one of the least free countries in the world.