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
I've had family members entangled with the criminal justice system. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people. — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Police Commit The Worst Criminal Activities Than The Very People They've Locked Up. Biggest Corrupt & Racist Institution.” — Witness Copy Share Image
People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It's encouraging to watch bipartisan leaders from different states recognize the need for fair and rational legislation focused on creating second chances… — Michael G. Rubin Copy Share Image
In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances. When we have… — Ketanji Brown Jackson 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
Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“The third job of copaganda is to convince the public to spend more money on the punishment bureaucracy by framing police, prosecutors,… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“There is a gulf between the image and reality of the punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda creates that gulf. It is the system of… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and… — Michael Franti 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
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people… — Michelle Alexander 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
“[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
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
“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
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
“..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 real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Let me ask you three questions,” he said. “And then you’ll see it my way. Question One: What’s the worst thing that… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It's been crazy to not only learn about the criminal justice system, but to see how it starts so young. — Jason McCourty Copy Share Image
“Police employing video propagandists has become more common after the murder of George Floyd.” — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
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