Asking Quote by Sekou Odinga

You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home…

— David Letterman

President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences.…

— Jimmy Fallon

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

— Camille Desmoulins

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

— Sekou Odinga

“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If they’re not…

— Jarod Kintz

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.

— Raul Labrador

Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not you get…

— Chelsea Manning

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood…

— James Inhofe

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but…

— Peter Singer

In addition to making sense and serving the needs of justice, rehabilitating prisoners and releasing them when they are ready can save taxpayers money.

— Charlie Kirk

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

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