Crime Quote by Charlie Kirk

We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the…

— Ken Cuccinelli

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they…

— Ann Widdecombe

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

— Benjamin Franklin

Locking people up without reducing the risk of them committing new crimes against new victims the minute they get out does not make for…

— Kenneth Clarke

We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when they return…

— Wes Moore

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals…

— Earl Warren

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking…

— Jerry Brown

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and effective) solution…

— David Cay Johnston

If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing…

— Carl Panzram