Brian Banks Quotes

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

It is easier to learn to fly by flapping one's arms than it is to get a district attorney to admit having sent an innocent person to prison.

There are many innocent people in prison.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

Mandatory minimum sentences should be abolished.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

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.

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

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

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

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

The criminal justice system is not working and people want something that works.

We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.