California Quote by Greg Boyle

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the…

— Rose Bird

Employment is key to reducing recidivism.

— Bob Casey, Jr

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— David Lidington

What we're doing in San Francisco and what we're doing with other criminal justice partners across the state and across the country is anything…

— Chesa Boudin

The best protection against recidivism is a job.

— Danny K. Davis

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

— Kamala Harris

The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and Latinos as…

— Michelle Alexander

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

— Molly Ivins

There are still states that have not evolved so much as California, that still skimp on recognition and, even worse, the rights of immigrants.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for…

— James Forman, Jr

California always struck me as a police state.

— Leon Russell