Good Quote by Chesa Boudin

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

— Maia Szalavitz

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us…

— Michael Botticelli

“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later,…

— Dominique DuBois Gilliard

“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

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

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

— Sam Branson

“Incarceration is a sustained, lifetime lynching, meant to discard your soul and make a shell of you in plain life. Make you into your…

— Junauda Petrus

And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we…

— Byron Katie

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

“When rehabilitation works, there is no question that it is the best and most productive use of the correctional system. It stands to reason:…

— John E. Douglas

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

— Judy Sheindlin

It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's…

— Perri Peltz