When it comes to criminal justice reform, good news apparently comes in threes.

On Thursday, Barack Obama became the first president in American history to visit a federal prison. He used the opportunity to say, “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes that I made.” Later the same day, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, declared that too many people have been incarcerated for “flimsy reasons.” And the day before, Bill Clinton admitted that while president, it was a mistake for him to sign a bill that has greatly contributed to America’s ever-growing prison population.