He's entertaining, no doubt but I find him to be a pig.
Now on Kasick, I have seen what manipulation in numbers has done with O'Malley and found the comment about not incarcerating mentally ill and getting treatment for drug abusers while incarcerated to be complete and utter bullshiat.
Most of the mentally ill that end up incarcerated are those who will not take the required medication even when it is provided and that can be dangerous for society and treatment while incarcerated works because they don't have the triggers. It is a different fight once they are released back into the communities that have the drugs in the 1st place.
Perhaps they will just ignore violations of parole (cough cough O'Malley) and keep them out on the streets to keep the numbers looking good. See only 10 percent of recidivism.