WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Billionaire Koch Industries leader Charles Koch is vowing to step up his effort to reform the legal system over the next year.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the Wichita-based company’s chairman and CEO says the nation’s criminal justice system needs to be fairer and the sentences “more appropriate.”

He began giving money ten years ago to support efforts by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to help train defense lawyers. He says he’s going to give more to that effort.

Koch’s chief counsel, Mark Holden, says legislators in recent decades drifted into a habit of adding more laws every year and taking stands to show themselves as “getting tough on crime.” He says it has gone too far and that the weight has fallen most heavily on minorities.