A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“a Democrat is a Republican who’s been through the criminal justice system.” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem. — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Significant cuts to funding for the police, for the Crown Prosecution Service, for probation etc, have put the long-term viability of our… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender.… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“As the tough-on-crime movement gathered force, those who had been arrested or convicted rarely participated in debates over criminal justice policy, in… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is critical that we double down on the progress that President Trump has made with regard to Criminal Justice Reform. His… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“No more self-defeating device could be discovered than the one society has developed in dealing with the criminal. It proclaims his career… — Frank Tannenbaum Copy Share Image
“Headlights flashed and she came back, surprised to see she was already at the Criminal Justice Center. Car coma, that’s what Baldwin… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“But class divisions influence criminal justice debates in black communities in less obvious ways as well: they explain, for example, why black… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
“[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
“The supreme magistrate was not distinguished from the rest by superior habitation or revenue. On the other hand, the duties awarded to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
I've had family members entangled with the criminal justice system. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
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