Quotes About Justice

In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How far would I go for the woman I loved? How far would I go, and what would I do when the person then told me that they were guilty? Could I still believe in them?' So it was very personal.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

Prison works.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.

There are many innocent people in prison.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply isn't working.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.

What we have to do is make sure there are prison places for those sent to prison by the courts and we will continue to do that regardless of how many people are sent to prison.