Richard Linklater Quotes

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

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.

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

The people deemed too dangerous to release therefore become the very people released with no conditions and no supervision.

Place all prisons near a high-road, where the suffering and disfigured offenders can be seen

Mandatory prison terms is easy to say, but where are we going to put people?

Our job is to incarcerate offenders and not hospitalize sick people…. We are reluctant to advocate better mental help facilities within our jail as it would only attract more people in need of mental health services

Any politician who wants to eliminate parole just doesn’t understand law enforcement.

Let there be convenient cages for the committing of unruly vagrants in every ward.

Things are more unpleasant here every day. The Senate chamber is filled with lice. It makes my head itch to think of it. The building is like one grand water closet. Every hole and every corner is defiled.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

The United States imprisons many non-violent offenders who could instead be required to pay fines, perform community service, and make restitution to their victims… Maintaining our vast network of prisons consumes resources that could be better spent on education and other crime prevention efforts... Rather than reforming offenders, prison too often degrades and dehumanizes prisoners, making the task of rehabilitation and reentry into society even more difficult.

Too many Americans are going to too many prisons for far too long.

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.

Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.

I don't want to be that girl hobbling around in heels, falling in snow.

As a Republican Party, we're going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don't want to let violent felons out of prison.

Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.