America has led the fight for human rights throughout the world.
I am trying to zero in on a specific question. Do you believe that confinement, solitary confinement, 23 hours a day, fi...
It is a mistake, I know, but I am going to do it anyway, to take anecdotal evidence and try to turn it into some profoun...
I hope that that will lead to an honest evaluation of how we can continue to make for a safe prison system, one that is ...
I want to commend you for being one of the few Senators who knows directly about which we speak, because you visit these...
We have got to do something about this, and we did.
African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of white Americans.
We can have a just society and we can be humane in the process.
We also have an obligation to look in the mirror, to look at our own human rights record.
If I had one request to my colleagues on this Judiciary Committee, it is to visit a prison.
When it is all over, let us write a record that we can be proud to tell our children about in terms of who we are and wh...