Quotes About Justice

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

I want to see prison numbers come down. We need better custody that cuts reoffending and crime. And we need to ensure judges, magistrates and the public have full confidence in the other penalties available.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

I know prisons from the inside.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.