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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

Topics: About Both Both Men And Women Brown Communities Concern Course Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Growing How Jail Justice Know Men Men And Women Now Number People Prison Put Quickly Rapidly Right School Sent Some Statistics System Terrible Terrible Thing Thing Well Women

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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Fairer Generation Homeland Justice Keep Making More Need Next Next Generation Our Our World Peaceful Safer Secure Streets Sustainable System World

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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

Topics: Any Causes College Color Communities Conflicts Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System End Get Good Good Job Jail Job Justice Know Likely Many Men More Part Potential Root System Than Think Those Up Who Without You Young Young Men I Think I Can

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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

~Ben Whishaw

Topics: Any Beings Clearly Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Designed Flaws Human Human Beings Justice Like System

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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

Topics: Avoid Breakdown Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Going Governor Important Justice Lake Michigan More Our Save System Than Whether

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The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Both Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Huge Justice Punish Purpose Somebody System Win

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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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