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I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. -- Henry Louis Gates
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes. -- Sam Sheppard
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. -- Ben Whishaw
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. -- Michael K. Williams
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. -- Tommy Chong
The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails. -- Ralph Nader
Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect. -- Nancy Grace
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. -- Helen Garner
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. -- Peter Jackson
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace. -- Adam Hochschild
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering. -- Kelly Ayotte
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
The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him -- Michael Mori
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality. -- Hillary Clinton
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. -- Dirk Kempthorne
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and criminals, the criminal justice system, -- Michael Connelly
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. -- Susana Martinez
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. -- Jan C. Ting
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. -- Matt Gonzalez
Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. -- Ron Paul
We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy. -- Iveta Radicova
California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs. -- Gil Garcetti
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. -- Larry Elder
The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it. -- Jon Kyl
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work. -- Michelle Alexander
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time. -- John P. Walters
The justice system is now just a system. -- Bob Enyart
Race determines everything in the criminal justice system -- Mark Geragos
Justice is no longer a concern of the justice system. -- Paul Craig Roberts
I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire. -- Gerard Butler
We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. -- Hillary Clinton
Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day. -- Gerald Kogan
America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. -- Jimmy Webb
Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one. -- Jon Ronson
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system. -- Ronald Reagan
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece. -- Adam Hochschild
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. -- George Will
States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system. -- Michael Dean Crapo
I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing. -- Tracey Gold
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. -- Bill James
The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards. -- Stella Young
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. -- Kamala Harris
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society. -- Alexander Stille
I've laid out a platform that I think would begin to remedy some of the problems we have in the criminal justice system. -- Hillary Clinton
The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail. -- Rashida Jones
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. -- Noam Chomsky
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst. -- Edna Buchanan
The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags. -- Katherine Boo
A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level. -- Aldis Hodge
Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people. -- Paul Gillmor
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law! -- Trey Gowdy
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that. -- Nancy Grace
I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school. -- Matthew McConaughey
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system. -- Michael Connelly
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry. -- Robert P. McCulloch
Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right. -- Donald Trump
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past. -- Michael K. Williams
I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system. -- Paul Broun
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed. -- Michelle Alexander
I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system. -- Tim McDonald
I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system. -- John Connolly
All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must. -- Michael Wright
The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement. -- Mario Cuomo
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music. -- Robert Bly
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. -- Bill Scott
Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system. -- Hillary Clinton
My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward. -- Marilyn Mosby
We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified, we ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system. -- Marilyn Mosby
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death. -- James Frey
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience. -- Elisabeth Rohm
There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence. -- Jon Shenk
The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock. -- Jonathan Larson
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system. -- Michael Franti
We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system. -- Hillary Clinton
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulagâ??the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition. -- David Levering Lewis
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. -- Robert Shapiro
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery. -- Randall Robinson
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. -- Peter MacKay
They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things. -- Leonard Peltier
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The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union. -- Barack Obama
Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by the police, harassed by security forces, and in some instances killed because they are black and assumed to be dangerous. -- Henry Giroux
It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. -- Hillary Clinton
In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative. -- Eric Holder
I think the American justice system has a lot more issues than the European justice system, especially the Scottish justice system. We have a really nice mix of European codified law and the traditional English system of common law, which is what the American system is based on. -- Gerard Butler
The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it. -- Assata Shakur
Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. -- Piper Kerman
In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved, this is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner. -- George Gascon
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. -- Eric Schlosser
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. -- Eliot Spitzer
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system. -- Bernie Sanders
You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes. -- Barack Obama
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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible. -- Anna Deavere Smith
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system? -- Russell Simmons
These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things. -- Barack Obama
Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better. -- Barack Obama
We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary. -- Hans Frank
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. -- Alan Dershowitz
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice. -- Jed S. Rakoff
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight. -- Kamala Harris
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well. -- Ernest Istook
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail. -- Henning Mankell
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. -- Henry Louis Gates
[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt. -- John Heilemann
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. -- Earl Warren
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind. -- Glenn Beck
The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? -- Georges Bernanos
Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security. -- John Garamendi
We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence. -- Garrison Wynn
The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice. -- Richard A. Falk
All the public systems "? administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. -- Rahul Gandhi
I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else. -- John Quincy Adams

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