Criminal justice Quote by Ted Wheeler

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail…

— Ralph Nader

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

— Jagmeet Singh

“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

Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.

— Thom Tillis

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

“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 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

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

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

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative…

— Cecily McMillan

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

You do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for people who…

— Kevin Sabet