America Quote by Pat Robertson

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less…

— Oliver North

I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average…

— Charles Schumer

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

— Susanna Reid

You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10…

— Glenn Loury

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in…

— Amy J. Berg

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

— Bryan Stevenson

“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

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of…

— James Forman, Jr

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976…

— Warren Farrell

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston