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Dakota Access pipeline opponents burn structures in their main protest camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, as authorities prepare to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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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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Relatives and friends of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York City in the decade before 9/11, carry his coffin after funeral prayers at the Grand Mosque, in the Nile Delta town of Gamalia, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheikh, was arrested in 1993 and convicted in 1995 along with nine followers of a conspiracy to blow up the United Nations and several New York landmarks. A symbol for radical Islamists, he had been serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison when he died on Saturday. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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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. 12, 2017 photo, 39-year-old Gorwe stands inside the tent she shares with family members at the Sharya camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. She escaped Islamic State militant captivity and has two sisters-in-law who are now living in Germany and receiving treatment in German trauma specialist Jan Kizilhan's program. (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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In this Jan. 11, 2017 photo, 23-year-old Perwin Ali Baku poses for a portrait inside the tent she shares with her family at Karbato camp for civilians displaced by war in Iraq. She recently escaped Islamic State militant captivity alongside her young daughter. 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. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)
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Dakota Access pipeline opponents burn structures in their main protest camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, as authorities prepare to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)
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Dakota Access pipeline opponents burn structures in their main protest camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, as authorities prepare to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)
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Refuse remains in the Dakota Access pipeline opponents' main protest camp as a fire burns in the background in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, as authorities prepare to shut down the camp in advance of spring flooding season. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson)
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This militant photo released by Ninawa State, a media arm of the Islamic State terror group on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 shows Abu Zakariya al-Britani, suicide bomber who attacked a military base in Iraq this week who was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee freed in 2004 after Britain lobbied for his release. The Islamic State group identified the bomber as Abu Zakariya al-Britani and two British security officials also confirmed the man featured in the Islamic State group video was a 50-year-old formerly Briton formerly known as Ronald Fiddler and as Jamal al-Harith. (Ninawa State via AP)
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A Florida congressman and Afghanistan war veteran is taking issue with Democratic supporters' post-election feelings of "trauma." (Associated Press)
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In a photo provided by the Frederick County Sheriff's Office, Kyle Mueller is shown in an Aug. 6, 2016, police booking photo in Frederick, Maryland. Mueller, accused of pipe-bombing an unoccupied police car has had a mental-health evaluation that supports his insanity plea, but he also faces new federal charges. Frederick County State's Attorney Charlie Smith said Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, it could take weeks to sort out the complications involving Mueller. (Frederick County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This undated photo released by the U.S. Army shows U.S. Army Pfc. Brian Odiorne, of Ware, Mass. The Pentagon said Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, that Odiorne died in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, but that his death was not combat related. He had been assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood, Texas. (U.S. Army via AP)
