George Will highlights bipartisan congressional efforts to reform America’s criminal justice system in his March 17 syndicated column.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator writes that changing how, and for how long, offenders are sentenced to prison is an important facet of reform efforts. “Too many people are in prison for too long, and too often, at a financial cost disproportionate to the enhancement of public safety. Texas has used alternatives to imprisonment to save $3 billion while crime rates have declined,” Will writes. Reformers in Congress are negotiating selective reductions in the severity of some mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders.