I actually do agree with both you and Rand Paul on this. Sessions will ruin lives needlessly with this, although I think Trump's incompetence will hamstring his efforts. But resorting to the "women and minorities hardest hit" crap is annoying as hell... is the fact that it will ruin white lives not important?
I dislike appeals to political correctness just on the face of them.
Concerning the impact on the lives of people who have committed criminal acts, it seems to me that the best thing to do for the rest of the population is to keep them off the streets.
Now if we are focusing on what is in the best interest of the people in the system, that is another matter, but from my perspective, many of them are beyond economic recovery. Some people just have poor impulse control, and weren't taught any better when they were young.
I think the modern root of much crime are government checks to unwed mothers. I think it is a court system that has undermined the role of religion in society. I think it is a societal decline that no longer celebrates responsibility and honor.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man