Hillary Clinton Quotes About Prisons

• Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jail, Prison, Mental Health

  "Read: Hillary Clinton's huge new speech on criminal justice reform". Hillary Clinton's speech at Columbia University, www.vox.com. April 29, 2015.

• We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

  Hillary Clinton

  Problem, Prison, Crime

• Mandela once told me that he lived on hatred when he went into prison because he was young and he was being abused and he was out there cracking those rocks all day and he said after about 11 years he realized that they'd already taken about everything they could take from him except his mind and his heart

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Taken

• You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivation, Cells, Prison

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

• We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Second Chance, Needs, Want

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

• African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

• It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

  Hillary Clinton

  Prison Population, Needs, Eras

  "Read: Hillary Clinton's huge new speech on criminal justice reform". Hillary Clinton's speech at Columbia University, www.vox.com. April 29, 2015.

• And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Agendas

• Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Tears

  "Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'", www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2015.

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