* An executive order, on day one of the presidency, prohibiting solitary confinement of children.  This is a no-brainer.<p>* The commission of a study, on day one of the presidency, to study solitary confinement across the country.  This is a no-brainer.<p>* An executive order, within the first year, walking solitary back to the limitations it had in decades past.<p>* A conference of US attorneys, headed by the attorney general, to come to a policy regarding sentencing guidelines.<p>* In the first year of the presidency, introduction and advocacy of legislation to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for all or nearly all nonviolent offenses.<p>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.<p>There are many more steps that might actually take a small amount of political capital, and they too are worth doing.<p>But a single directive in year 8 of the presidency?  There are children who have been languishing in solitary for <i>years</i> while this guy waited to release this statement.