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Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

— Eric Goode

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime…

— Chesa Boudin

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 broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should…

— Bob Casey, Jr

Those is power being largely corrupt, recognize that a non functional and corrupt judiciary will allow them to escape punishment even when they get…

— Prashant Bhushan

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

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system…

— Gore Vidal

“...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

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

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize…

— Sam Sheppard

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