Confidence Quote by David Lidington

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

What we have to do is make sure there are prison places for those sent to prison by the courts and we will continue…

— Crispin Blunt

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

— Hillary Clinton

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

Too many communities are living in fear as violent crime rises. So we need to reform our justice system to keep our streets safe…

— Priti Patel

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

— Jerry Weller

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper…

— Thomas Frank

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

— James Bovard

Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be much tougher…

— David Lidington

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander

We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with…

— Tahar Rahim