Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"The jury trial is really a central feature of our justice system as the Founders envisioned it."

"No matter how long people are kept in prison, they should be nearer to their children, especially if they are mothers of those children."

"But it is your experience as a practitioner that, other things being equal, higher overcrowding will have a tendency to increase violence and risk within the population?"

"Well, we certainly hope it is the moment of tremendous opportunity, and I want to thank you and the Urban Institute for the effort and the professionalism that they brought into that report."