There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.
It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.
Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.
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