“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
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
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
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute… — Benjamin Wittes 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
When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of… — David Rudolf Copy Share Image
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
I grossly underestimated the gravitational pull of America's justice system toward white supremacy. — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no faith in the justice system so I don't let anything affect me. — Danny Rose Copy Share Image
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Without the reform of the justice system, there is no possibility of building a just state. — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors… — Keir Starmer 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 would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief,… — Yance Ford 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
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
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. — Bill James Copy Share Image
We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified, we ask for the… — Marilyn Mosby Copy Share Image
The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does… — Michael Mori 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
Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is… — Suzy Kassem 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
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
“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
One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex,… — Gad Saad 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
“Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
“As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The issues the Panthers organized around fifty years ago are still with us. Our justice system is unjust. Police conduct in nonwhite… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw reached 800,000,000,000 goals in restitution orders should be consistent nationwide. Brandon McCaw did research on a coordinated interagency reponse throughout… — Brandon Mccaw 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
“As if you don’t already know all this, men who beat up on women are different than the rest of us. Okay?… — Keith Ablow 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
