The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
“One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system—in prison, in jail, on probation,… — michelle alexander Copy Share Image
People who face discrimination due to the color of their skin, are often obstructed by institutional barriers across our society - from… — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The towering lie of the criminal justice system—that we can reliably determine the truth, that we can know “beyond a reasonable doubt”… — William Landay Copy Share Image
The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned… — Jon Kyl Copy Share Image
“The first job of copaganda is to narrow our conception of threat. Rather than the bigger threats to our safety caused by… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The entire genre of police procedurals mythologizes punishment bureaucrats and the allegedly sophisticated technologies they wield. And it's not just Hollywood--fictional copaganda… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: “It’s boggling that the legal system’s gold standard for an… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
My mother negotiated a plea deal, and my father went to trial. I think one thing we notice in their case that… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people. — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
When two of every three people emerging from jail are rearrested and return to prison, it is clear our criminal justice system… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief,… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
At the federal level, I believe we should address inequality by reforming our criminal justice system, including demilitarizing our law enforcement departments. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic… — Michelle Alexander 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
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line… — Kristen Soltis Anderson 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
If you know anything about the issues in our country, you know we have a lot of deep-rooted anger and anxieties that… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
