Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is - about how devoid of compassion it is. It's not healing the harm that victims experience. It's not rehabilitating… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Different victims, different survivors of different crimes will choose to pursue different paths. And hopefully, over time, we can collectively transform our culture into… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire jail will… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Being a foreigner - especially a white and relatively wealthy one - in poor, underdeveloped countries is inherently fraught. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
“somewhere along the dust-chocked Guatemalan road between...and ...was where I confirmed that I preferred traveling around the slow, bone-rattling way: by bus,with ordinary people.… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
I don't expect to ever put my family background to rest but I do expect to be taken seriously as a scholar, a writer… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public - especially Black communities… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person.… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
If police departments won't remove officers who lack integrity, prosecutors should ensure that no one is prosecuted based on those officers' unreliable accounts. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
