Circumstances Quote by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

— Michael J. Knowles

The justice system is now just a system.

— Bob Enyart

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

— Peter Jackson

Every criminal-justice system has to find some kind of balance between protecting the rights of innocent people falsely accused of crimes and protecting the…

— Hannah Fry

I think our criminal justice system has two problems. We have systematic problems and we have people problems. So if the hearts of people…

— Maya Moore

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

— Anthony Ray Hinton

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 legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the…

— Judith Lewis Herman

We must shape a restorative justice system that does not seek to criminalize whole communities, but instead creates opportunities for prevention and integration. Most…

— Laphonza Butler

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but…

— Jan Schakowsky

We all require equal access to the justice system.

— Rohini Nilekani

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