Crime Quote by David Gauke

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average…

— Charles Schumer

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left…

— Bob Ney

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

— Polly Toynbee

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of…

— James Forman, Jr

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

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter…

— Mary B. Harris

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply…

— David Gauke

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— Bruce Jackson

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

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

— Eric Holder