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

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.

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

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.