Ms Crook refused to comment on the decision to release Mr Roberts, although she added: "Prison should be primarily about public safety, and if the Parole Board has considered that someone is safe to release then we as a society should support that view based on the basic principle of redemption".
In the third quarter it added prison dramedy Orange Is The New Black from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan.
Mr Gunn said the problem was "multifaceted" but added: "Prison is horrible and many [inmates] are mentally ill.
Pat Toomey, a Republican senator for Pennsylvania, has proposed a "Thin Blue Line Act" that would add prison time as an aggravating circumstance to the sentence of anyone targeting and killing a police officer.
Federal prosecutors announced they would not pursue a second trial, on fraud charges, against Sharpe James, the former mayor of Newark, because a conviction was unlikely to add prison time to what he was already facing.
Certain themes recurred in NYC: Hate-crime laws, for example, essentially punish thought deemed impure by adding prison time for certain acts that are already crimes.
"Mr Mahmood is not expected to be the most welcome, nor the most popular, inmate," he said, adding prison would be "much harder" because of that.
Still, the judge sided with the priest's court-appointed lawyer, Lawrence Hopkins, when he argued that the government was double-counting in asking the judge to add prison time for certain breaches.
"We all are in this together," Brown told reporters in Riverside, while pressing for increased drug-treatment and education programs for criminals in addition to plans to add prison beds.
Scott Medlock, one of the lawyers who filed the lawsuit, said there was a link, adding the prison system has faced similar lawsuits before.
