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At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.

~Conrad Black

Topics: American Concern Court Criminal Criminal Justice Human Justice Knows Least Percent Prisoners Scant Shows Side Supreme Supreme Court

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If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Different Experience Grew Jersey Justice New New Jersey System Than Up Very Where Would You

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I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Achieve Achieving Crime Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Evidence Expense Favor Find Freedom Great Justice Know Liberty Nation Never Number Our Population Prison Reduction Specific System Taxpayer Think Way Would I Think

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I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Across Allies Am Broken Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Found Happy Justice Our Political Reform Spectrum System Urgency I Am I Am Happy

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I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

~Don Winslow

Topics: About Being Corrected Corrections Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Ideas Including Justice Look Mean Named Need None Our Policing Rethink Should System Think Whole Working I Think

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I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior year because I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to finish school and get my degree. I took mainly a bunch of criminal justice courses online for the last year because that's all that they offered.

~Drew Seeley

Topics: Actor Advertising Also Because Bunch California Courses Criminal Criminal Justice Degree Finish Florida Get Justice Knew Last Last Year Mainly Moved Offered Online Orlando Out Public Public Relations Relations School Senior Senior Year Took Wanted Year

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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

Topics: Admit Against Argument Best Compelling Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Day Death Death Penalty Despite Efforts End End Of The Day Even Fallible Justice Know Like Most Our Penalty Persuasive System Though Winning Within

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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

Topics: After Announcement August Crime Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Department Federal Focus Francisco Initiative January Justice Made Out People Re-Election Reforming San San Francisco Smart System Wanted Year

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I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

~Eric Holder

Topics: Criminal Criminal Justice Done Efforts Focus Including Innovative Justice Money One Of The Things People Really Red Reform Regard Rehabilitation Save Seen Some States Things Think You I Think

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I took a sociology class, and I got an A in it. Then I found out you could get an emphasis in criminal justice. I wanted to be an administrator.

~Eric Stonestreet

Topics: Administrator Class Could Criminal Criminal Justice Emphasis Found Get Got Justice Out Sociology Then Took Wanted You

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