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State Sen. John Eklund discusses proposed legislation to help reduce the state's prison population by putting more emphasis on keeping nonviolent offenders in the community instead of behind bars, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Eklund says if offenders are doing their best to rehabilitate themselves, it doesn't make any sense to send them back to prison for minor violations of their parole. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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State Sen. Charleta Tavares discusses proposed legislation to help reduce the state's prison population by putting more emphasis on keeping nonviolent offenders in the community instead of behind bars, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Tavares said not every violation of the law necessitates a stay in prison. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, discusses proposed legislation to help reduce the state's prison population by putting more emphasis on keeping nonviolent offenders in the community instead of behind bars, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Mohr says that nationally, about 14 percent of offenders in state prisons are there for drug offenses, compared to 28 percent in Ohio. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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This undated photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Armando Sotelo of Kansas. Sotelo and another man are scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, for their roles in a hate crime attack on three Somali men outside an African grocery store in Dodge City in June 2015. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Omar Cantero Martinez, of Kansas. Martinez and one other man are scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, for their roles in a hate crime attack on three Somali men outside an African grocery store in Dodge City in June 2015. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Britain's Princess Kate Duchess of Cambridge has a go at playing pool during her visit to Action for Children project MIST, a child and adolescent mental health project which works specifically with children who are living in care, in Torfaen, Wales, Wednesday Feb. 22, 2017. This is the first engagement for Princess Kate with Action for Children since becoming its Patron in December, following on from Her Majesty The Queen. (Paul Edwards/pool via AP)
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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, file photo, Dr. Larry Nassar listens to testimony of a witness during a preliminary hearing, in Lansing, Mich. The former sports doctor at Michigan State University who specialized in treating gymnasts has been charged with sexual assault. Dr. Nassar was charged Wednesday, Feb. 22, in two Michigan counties. Online records show he's facing nine charges in Ingham county, including first-degree criminal sexual conduct against a victim under age 13. Nassar had a clinic at Michigan State, where he treated members of the gymnastics team and younger regional gymnasts. (Robert Killips/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)
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Lexene Charles and Heather Lindsay, who discovered racist graffiti on their home, are being fined $100 a day for refusing to remove the offensive language until police conduct a thorough investigation. (ABC 7)
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In this Jan. 11, 2017 photo, Yazidi children walk carrying school books at the Kabarto camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. A new psychological trauma institute is being established at the university of Dohuk in Iraq, the first in the entire region. The program will train local mental health professionals to treat Islamic State victims, including thousands of Yazidi women and children. It will open at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, a girl plays at the Sharya camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. A new psychological trauma institute is being established at the university of Dohuk in Iraq, the first in the entire region. The program will train local mental health professionals to treat Islamic State victims, including thousands of Yazidi women and children. It will open at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, a boy holds two small bottles of medicine at a clinic inside the Sharya camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. A new psychological trauma institute is being established at the university of Dohuk in Iraq, the first in the entire region. The program will train local mental health professionals to treat Islamic State victims, including thousands of Yazidi women and children. It will open at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, Yazidis fill a crowded waiting room at a clinic inside the Sharya camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. A new psychological trauma institute is being established at the university of Dohuk in Iraq, the first in the entire region. The program will train local mental health professionals to treat Islamic State victims, including thousands of Yazidi women and children. It will open at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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In this Jan. 11, 2017 photo, prospective students wait to be interviewed for a place in the psychological trauma and treatment institute doctor Jan Kizilhan is helping establish at Dohuk university in Iraq. The program will train local mental health professionals to treat Islamic State victims, including thousands of Yazidi women and children. It will open at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, a Yazidi woman holds a child at a clinic inside the Sharya camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. A new psychological trauma institute is being established at the university of Dohuk in Iraq, the first in the entire region. The program will train local mental health professionals to treat Islamic State victims, including thousands of Yazidi women and children. It will open at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Duane Buck. The Supreme Court has ordered a new court hearing for a Texas prison inmate Buck who claims improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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A red day suit designed by Caroline Walker, and worn by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1996 when she launched a HIV/Aids Charity London Lighthouse appeal, is on display during a media preview of an exhibition of 25 dresses and outfits worn by Diana entitled "Diana: Her Fashion Story" at Kensington Palace in London, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, speaks of the tax bill he was sent last week at the Kansas Chamber annual dinner in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday night, Feb. 21, 2017. Brownback said Tuesday that he will veto a bipartisan bill that would roll back personal income tax cuts he's championed to help balance the state budget. (Thad Allton /The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)
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In this July 4, 2015 photo released by Matangi Tonga Online, Queen Mother Halaevalu Mata'aho, center, wearing her own crown from her July 4 1967 coronation as Queen Consort to Tupou IV, leaves the Free Wesleyan Church in Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, following the coronation of her son King Tupou VI. The South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga is mourning the death of its queen mother, who dedicated her time to helping the elderly and those with disabilities. Halaevalu Mata'aho died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, at the age of 90 in Auckland, New Zealand, after traveling there for health reasons. (Linny Folau/Matangi Tonga Online via AP)
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In this Feb. 19, 2017 photo, a couple dances during the "If you don't give me....then you lend me" Carnival street party on Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The typical view of Carnival in Brazil is anything goes, with no headdress too big, no outfit too small, no song too ribald, but this year some organizers of the world's best known party are drawing the line at lyrics that are sexist, homophobic or racist. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
