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

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

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

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.

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!

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

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.

More law, less justice.