* An executive order, on day one of the presidency, prohibiting solitary confinement of children. This is a no-brainer. * The commission of a study, on day on

* An executive order, on day one of the presidency, prohibiting solitary confinement of children. This is a no-brainer. * The commission of a study, on day one of the presidency, to study solitary confinement across the country. This is a no-brainer. * An executive order, within the first year, walking solitary back to the limitations it had in decades past. * A conference of US attorneys, headed by the attorney general, to come to a policy regarding sentencing guidelines. * In the first year of the presidency, introduction and advocacy of legislation to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for all or nearly all nonviolent offenses. None of these are controversial - every single one of these steps has vocal support from at least one member of both parties in both houses of congress. There are many more steps that might actually take a small amount of political capital, and they too are worth doing. But a single directive in year 8 of the presidency? There are children who have been languishing in solitary for years while this guy waited to release this statement.