Criminal justice Quote by Perri Peltz

“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much…

— Michelle Alexander

“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed.…

— Michael Bihovsky

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

The issue is, you do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that…

— Kevin Sabet

“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

We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.

— Paul Ryan

Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and…

— Milton Friedman

To end the drug crisis, we should educate everyone about the dangers of opioid drugs, help drug users get treatment, and aggressively prosecute criminals…

— Rod Rosenstein

“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later,…

— Dominique DuBois Gilliard

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

— Barry McCaffrey

We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives…

— Bernie Sanders