Accounts Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces…

— Michelle Alexander

Here's the bigger problem with all this, we're not interrogating anybody right now. Guantanamo's being emptied by this president. We should be putting people…

— Marco Rubio

The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations.…

— Chelsea Manning

“Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses in prisons…

— Jimmy Carter

The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been…

— Stephen Kinzer

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders…

— Peter Pace

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing.…

— Fred Korematsu

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

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no…

— Molly Crabapple

I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be…

— Cornel West

The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who…

— Chelsea Manning

My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our…

— Barack Obama