FastSaying

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

Anna Deavere Smith

AboutBothBrownCommunitiesConcernCourseCriminalCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemGrowingHowJailJusticeKnowMenMen And WomenNowNumberPeoplePrisonPutQuicklyRapidlyRightSchoolSentSomeStatisticsSystemTerribleTerrible ThingThi

Related Quotes

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
— Montesquieu
criminal-justicecriminal-justice-systeminjustice
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
BothCriminalCriminal Justice
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.
— Tom Price
AbsoluteAccuracyConvinced
At least the attorneys got the name of their system right when they called it the Criminal Justice System, because it damn sure isn’t the Victim Justice System.
— Bobby W. Miller
Criminal Justice System
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
— Henry Louis Gates
CriminalCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System