Criminal justice system Quotes

“a Democrat is a Republican who’s been through the criminal justice system.”

— Karin Slaughter

I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.

— Chris Grayling

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

— Ronald Reagan

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

— Michael K. Williams

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

— David Lidington

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford

I have complete faith and trust in our criminal justice system.

— Shamna Kasim

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system

— Mark Geragos

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does…

— Sam Sheppard

Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in…

— David Lammy

I want to help other people clear their records, and I want to help them avoid some of the loopholes that get…

— Angela Stanton-King

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by…

— Robert P. McCulloch

States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

— Michael Dean Crapo

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept…

— Steve Earle

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

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

— Kamala Harris

The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But…

— Michelle Alexander

In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution…

— George Gascon

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the…

— Eric Holder

I think one of the things that happens with, especially in the criminal justice system, is that the prosecutor is able to…

— Isaac Wright Jr

Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and…

— Piper Kerman

“How do you survive for years in prison? You don’t think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to…

— John Grisham

What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our…

— Aisha Hinds

There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a…

— Antonin Scalia

“When a criminal justice system works properly, it’s not because rational actors know that Big Brother is watching them 24/7 and will…

— Steven Pinker

“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but…

— Gary A. Haugen

One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a…

— Bernie Sanders

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with…

— Michelle Alexander

The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend…

— John Kleinig

“On the day Chicago police murdered Laquan McDonald, a seventeen-year-old Black teenager, in 2014, Chicago cops had six full-time public relations employees.…

— Alec Karakatsanis

“It's hard to imagine any group of people being held in less esteem than we are by our clients. The overwhelming majority…

— Sergio De La Pava

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and…

— Michelle Alexander

“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of…

— Beatrix Campbell

“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson,…

— Heather Bacon

“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

“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they…

— Bryan Stevenson

“You can tell a lot about a country by its prisons. In hippy-dippy Socialist Sweden, rapists and murders (all three of them)…

— Maureen Klovers

“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

“During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system,…

— Edward Conlon