Balance Quote by Anthony Gregory

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

— Keith Olbermann

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the…

— Rose Bird

“We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state… Somehow it is always…

— Niall Ferguson

“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history of any…

— David Cay Johnston

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

— Anthony Gregory

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of…

— Conrad Black

Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's…

— Noam Chomsky

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some…

— Nat Hentoff

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman