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

We have had 994 people graduate.

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

If we want to fight crime we have to do what the research tells us.

I am going to offer an amendment here to set up a pilot program to have prisoners working.

I mean, that is a legitimate, we think a legitimate question.

I was the author of the Prison Rape bill.

I do not think you can put a man in prison for years and not give him work. I just do not think you can.

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

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 was opposed to what the Congress did on Prison Industries.

To find employment is the answer.