David Brooks
The Prison Problem
The New York Times
October 11, 2015

David Brooks sticks to the facts of his topics; he doesn't beat around the bush or give a bias opinion on the topic. Throughout his post about The Prison Problem Brooks sites Leon Neyfakh when discussing the releasing of drug offenders and John Pfaff  when discussing the Mandatory Minimum Theory; which is a binding length of time needed to be spent in prison depending on the federal or state crime committed. Brooks appeals to pathos in this post because he discusses releasing "once violent criminals" and I think that when a parent or even teenager reads that a shiver goes up there spine at the thought of violent criminals being let loose, weather or not they have proven not be violent.