personal political or ideological laboratory. we've seen states ban the box all around the country, my home state of pennsylvania being one of them. it hasn't had negative impant on hiring or led to increased criminality among employers. ben is misrepresenting the facts here, i'm sure by accident. he's suggesting that no one is accountable and employers don't have access. somehow employers don't have access to people's backgrounds. for important jobs and security jobs you still can do background checks. if i'm going to be the head of a security company, go into trading, do all sorts of jobs, media jobs, they can still do a background check. it's not as if employers don't get to find out that their security guard is an ax murderer. >> we also know that starting this past friday, thousands of federal inmates were released from prison due to a reconsideration on sentences against drug criminals, basically low-level drug offenses, some 6,100 prisoners totally. we should point out, mostly