We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
“We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.”
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We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
“We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.”
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“We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.”
“There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.”
“You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.”
“I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.”
“Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.”
“I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.”
“Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.”
“I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.”
“It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.”
“A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.”
“You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the other alternatives are going up.”
“If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.”