I've had family members entangled with the criminal justice system. — Ritchie Torres 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
Burdensome fees have made it harder for people to exit the criminal justice system. — London Breed Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence. — Chris Grayling 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
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
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are… — Aldis Hodge 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
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through… — Robert Bly 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
“If you're an amateur, professional, or aspiring journalist in any city in the U.S., a good story for you would be to… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness… — Kimberly Guilfoyle 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
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
Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is -… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquittal was such a historical event… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and… — Lori Lightfoot 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
“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
“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
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism… — Cory Booker 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
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that… — Jaclyn Friedman 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 Defendant: I am pleading guilty your honors but I'm doing it because I think it would be a waste of money… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“Forensic DNA Expert Anil Gupta offer a variety of DNA forensic testing systems including STR, Y-STR, and mitochondrial DNA. The DNA Sample… — Anil Gupta Copy Share Image
“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system,… — Edward Conlon Copy Share Image
We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
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