To do this at such a massive expense to the taxpayer, unnecessarily egregious expenditures, where we spend about a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars a year incarcerating human beings, ...
This understanding that our criminal justice system is not about fear and retribution but should be guided by principles of justice, fairnes...
When we see poor people being ground up into a system but for the fact that they do not have the resources for their liberation, that we hav...
So, it is clearly time for a change.
We need to buildup the resources of municipalities, of States, to have other agencies to go to...
That is astonishing to me, and I would love to explore that further, because all the evidence that I have is that it is a practice at the Fe...
It has been probably the best experience I have had in the U.S. Senate since I began about 18, 19 months ago.
The vast majority of people who are in prison are coming home from prison.
So, we are taking care of the Californians, but there are a lot of people from the Northeast, a lot of women with small children who are hav...
I do not care if it is a homicide, non-violent drug crime, what are we getting for taxpayers for putting them in an environment in which hum...
doing it on the Federal level would send a signal to really resonate throughout our country