The fact that more than 50 percent of Americans have an immediate family member either currently or formerly incarcerated tells you a lot about just how defining a feature of American culture incarceration has become. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
We've been addicted to incarceration as a primary response for decades, whether or not it's a good use of resources, whether or not it's humane, whether or not it is effective at keeping us safe, rehabilitating or healing victims. — 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
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
We should start with the basics: Police officers are unlikely to be held accountable if the prosecutors investigating and potentially prosecuting them feel indebted… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
