Cases Quote by Jan Schakowsky

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational…

— Tom Price

From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part…

— Keir Starmer

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system…

— Sam Rockwell

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining,…

— Bill Maher

Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman

For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the…

— James Frey

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone…

— Antonin Scalia

“The real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in America. The…

— Michelle Alexander

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had…

— George W. Bush

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison…

— Piper Kerman

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman