I've had family members entangled with the criminal justice system. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Burdensome fees have made it harder for people to exit the criminal justice system. — London Breed Copy Share Image
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English. — Matthew McGrory Copy Share Image
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I… — Marilyn Mosby Copy Share Image
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Every time the cradle of justice becomes criminal, it falls upon us civilians to be justice incorruptible.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
On criminal justice reform: Joe Biden couldn't do it, but President Trump did. On the economy: Joe Biden couldn't do it, but… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“It is a general misconception that the police exist to protect the public. This is true only in the most generic sense--i.e.,… — Robert A. Waters Copy Share Image
“the Kochs presented themselves as champions of criminal justice reform, but while they were active in ALEC, it was instrumental in pushing… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“If you don’t incapacitate violent actors, they keep pushing people around until someone makes them stop. When violent people are permitted to… — Jill Leovy Copy Share Image
“What this book intended to do - the only thing it is intended to do - is to stimulate a much-needed conversation… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The supreme magistrate was not distinguished from the rest by superior habitation or revenue. On the other hand, the duties awarded to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image