Crime Quote by 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

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

“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

“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws that mandate…

— David Cay Johnston

“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

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— 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

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

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