About Quote by Bryan Stevenson

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

— Jerry Brown

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

— Catherine Helen Spence

The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do…

— Frederic Bastiat

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

— Antonin Scalia

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for…

— Arne Duncan

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

— Frederic Bastiat

The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.

— Elizabeth Flock

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

— Bernie Sanders

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

— Jerry Weller

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned…

— Stacey Abrams

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and…

— Susan Burton