Quote

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

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

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.