Drug Quote by Charles Schumer

We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people…

— Sonny Barger

We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Piper Kerman

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in…

— Charles Schumer

You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10…

— Glenn Loury

“The real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in America. The…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

The issue is, you do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that…

— Kevin Sabet

“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much…

— Michelle Alexander

The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental…

— Ted Wheeler

You do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for people who…

— Kevin Sabet

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis