Bernie Sanders Jail Quotations

What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We have some 2.2 million people in jail. What that means is that a lot of lives are being destroyed.

In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.