Tell us about books in your courtroom.

Sure.

So books obviously aren't services and are programming a rehabilitation.

But I think as a former teacher, of course, reading is fundamental.

That's what they say, yeah.

So about two years into it, it didn't escape my attention that people have to wait on their attorneys.

They're waiting in the hallways.

How do you, as a judge who's ultimately there to uphold the law, which requires certain things to happen when someone breaks it, How do you balance the understanding that it sounds like you have about recovery with the law's requirement to punish sometimes?