(CNN) John Legend is weighing in on prison sentences a day after actress Felicity Huffman got 14 days for her role in the nationwide college admission scandal.

In a series of tweets Saturday, Legend, who champions criminal justice reform, said prison is not always the answer for every mistake. The bigger issue, he said, is that people are getting locked up for everything.

"I get why everyone gets mad when rich person X gets a short sentence and poor person of color Y gets a long one. The answer isn't for X to get more; it's for both of them to get less (or even none!!!) We should level down not up," he tweeted.

"Americans have become desensitized to how much we lock people up. Prisons and jails are not the answer to every bad thing everyone does, but we've come to use them to address nearly every societal ill."

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