Community service Quote by Piper Kerman

“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell…

— 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

“...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

The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental…

— Ted Wheeler

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

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

— Steve Earle

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

I believe the public therefore expect the justice system to focus on rehabilitation to reduce the risk of subsequent offending - and the likelihood…

— David Gauke

“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

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 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

“Merely reducing prison terms does not have a major impact on the majority of people in the system. It is the badge of inferiority—the…

— Michelle Alexander