Chesa Boudin

Different victims, different survivors of different crimes will choose to pursue different paths. And hopefully, over time, we can collectively transform our…

— Chesa Boudin

My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.

— Chesa Boudin

All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire…

— Chesa Boudin

Being a foreigner - especially a white and relatively wealthy one - in poor, underdeveloped countries is inherently fraught.

— Chesa Boudin

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and…

— Chesa Boudin

“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…

— Chesa Boudin

I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose…

— Chesa Boudin

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that…

— Chesa Boudin

I don't expect to ever put my family background to rest but I do expect to be taken seriously as a scholar,…

— Chesa Boudin

Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public - especially…

— Chesa Boudin

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with…

— Chesa Boudin

If police departments won't remove officers who lack integrity, prosecutors should ensure that no one is prosecuted based on those officers' unreliable…

— Chesa Boudin

Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle…

— Chesa Boudin

Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation.

— Chesa Boudin

We should start with the basics: Police officers are unlikely to be held accountable if the prosecutors investigating and potentially prosecuting them…

— Chesa Boudin

The problem with money bail, for those who aren't familiar with it, is that it puts a price tag on freedom. It…

— Chesa Boudin

The fact that more than 50 percent of Americans have an immediate family member either currently or formerly incarcerated tells you a…

— Chesa Boudin

I've been really consistent throughout the campaign and since I won that I want to prioritize victims rights and I want to…

— Chesa Boudin

Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is -…

— Chesa Boudin

People are shaped in myriad ways by their upbringing and family. We also have agency in our lives, the people we become,…

— Chesa Boudin

In San Francisco, I am proud to say that one of my first mandates as district attorney was that my staff would…

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My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me…

— Chesa Boudin

When my parents were arrested, I was a year old. And like so many children with incarcerated parents, I experienced a range…

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Because like so many people who were victimized directly or indirectly by crime, I blamed myself. If I hadn't been able to…

— Chesa Boudin

My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions.

— Chesa Boudin