I think it is the most extensive since I have worked in this institution, that there has been so much time spent.

I was the author with Senator Kennedy on the Prison Rape bill.

I have read that the recidivism rate--they operate a couple of prisons, one down in Texas. They have one of the lowest recidivism record.

I do not think they have improved.

We are encouraged by it.

the authorizers, though, with all due respect have looked at this stuff for years and we have watched the prison system go up.

I think the fact that you have this panel probably makes these hearings well worth it.

I think we may see an increase in crime with the whole aspect of dignity to the individual from almost a biblical point of view, work, and to be involved in something.

I think the initial purpose of the faith based was that the churches, the synagogues, the mosques would then come around the person once they left the prison so there was a continuity.

William Wilberforce started prison reform in Great Britain. I mean, we are working toward it.

I was involved in a program called Man To Man where we would go down to Lorette Reformatory which was a pit.

I think there is a unique opportunity. I think we are coming to a storm economically.

There must be a tremendous amount of reinvestment, not just in terms of whole dollars.

I mean, we have spent so much money and we are dealing with live individuals who are, you know, made in the image of God.

I was opposed to what the Congress did on Prison Industries.

I think it is cruel and inhumane to put a man away for 15 years and not give him something to get up in the morning and go to and work whereby they can, one, put some money aside, whereby you could pay a minimum wage, whereby they can have…

People in prisons are people. They have moms and dads and husbands and wives and kids. And they are not statistics.

It takes money to save money.

I think we are building more prisons, putting more people away when we ought to be putting more money into training and work.

I think it is an embarrassment that the United States has the largest per capita prison system now in the world.

I talked to a prisoner, he got out, he cannot get a job.

To find employment is the answer.

Why don't we do that?

What is the backlog waiting to come in throughout the system?

If we do not have productive, number one education programs, and number two, the Prison Industries Program, or some form of it, we cannot possibly ensure that inmates learn how to work.