All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice… — Michael Wright Copy Share Image
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
It always had occurred to me that drugs misuse was obviously a major driver of demand in the criminal justice system. — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
I believe Pennsylvania is a place for second chances - and my Administration has invested in and advanced real criminal justice system… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
Let the punishment fit the crime,' goes the saying. Our criminal justice system - to a large degree - meets this standard. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms… — Dana Goldstein 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“The concept and terminology of "mugging" as opposed to, say, "robbery" was created as part of the panic, even though there was… — Alec Karakatsanis 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
Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still… — Shaun King 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
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
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux 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
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
“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and… — Michelle Alexander 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
“Copaganda leaves the public in a vague state of fear. It manufactures suspicions against poor people, immigrants, and racial minorities rather than,… — Alec Karakatsanis 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
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
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long… — William Barr 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
There's no way you are going to get rid of the Second Amendment, there's no way you're going to get rid of… — Chuck Todd 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
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
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building:… — Jonathan Larson Copy Share Image
