Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me… — Bryan Callen Copy Share Image
The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people. — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the… — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“There was noise in the corridor outside Alice’s office; and though it was nothing of concern, they separated. Roger stood, fingers tucked… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?" Roarke: "Summerset has the night off." Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
So many kids that we label as 'thugs' and 'criminals' are often those same kids that end up in circumstances that are… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Parents in prison don’t help with homework. They don’t help pay the bills. They don’t corral youngsters on bedtime patrol, advocate for… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Cancel culture, this cancelling, this punishment, it's everywhere. Punishment. An eye for an eye. 'You said that, therefore you must never work… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“If you don’t work intentionally with the criminal to help him come to love and accept himself, he will re-enter society with… — Paul Ferrini Copy Share Image
The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it… — David Duke Copy Share Image
