A:  When, in an article in Politico, the other side is quoted giving an answer like this (emphasis added):

[W]hile the [percentage of those who re-offend after early release is] small - and a recent study shows they re-offend at the same rate as those who served their full terms, about 45 percent -- it only takes one example for a 30-second campaign ad. [Steve Cook, President of NAAUSA] said they've already found a case in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a former federal inmate would have been in jail on the day he killed a man in 2011, if not for a sped-up release.

"When criminals are in custody, they're not victimizing the good and honest citizens in our community," Cook said. "When they're out on the street, they are."

Those types of arguments are "so old school," said [Holly] Harris [of the U.S. Justice Action Network]. "It just sounds old and dated and just so out of tune with where we are in society."