Father Quote by Chesa Boudin

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

— 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 jail will…

— 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 create situations…

— 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 ordinary people.…

— Chesa Boudin

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

— 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 someone you…

— 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, a writer…

— Chesa Boudin

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

— 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 accounts.

— Chesa Boudin

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

— Chesa Boudin