Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people. — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be. — Barbara Neely Copy Share Image
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system. — Tom Price 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
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
Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem… — Michelle Alexander 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 majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
“Shocking, sad, revealing, and deeply researched, this true account of the life and crimes of serial killer Aileen Wuornos will fascinate true-crime… — John E. Douglas 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
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our… — Aisha Hinds 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
We are having a public health response to this epidemic of prescription opioids. We are looking at treatment options, there are drugs… — Perri Peltz 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
I think Kamala Harris would be a fantastic president. I've known her for many years. We've worked on a lot of issues… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in… — Hakeem Jeffries Copy Share Image
We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug… — Otto Perez Molina 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
“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
We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“It is a general misconception that the police exist to protect the public. This is true only in the most generic sense--i.e.,… — Robert A. Waters Copy Share Image
“the Kochs presented themselves as champions of criminal justice reform, but while they were active in ALEC, it was instrumental in pushing… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Don't promote yourself as a country of constitutionality and compassion if you honestly believe that putting people in prison and treating them… — Bernard B. Kerik Copy Share Image
“Those who have been swept within the criminal justice system know that the way the system actually works bears little resemblance to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this… — Sergio De La Pava 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
I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image