Anthony Daniels Quotes

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

I chose to keep teachers in classrooms rather than prisoners in prison..

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.