Jamie Fellner Quotations

U.S. meat and poultry employers put workers at predictable risk of serious physical injury even though the means to avoid such injury are known and feasible, ... In doing so, they violate the right of workers to a safe place of employment.

Working conditions in U.S. meat and poultry plants should trouble the conscience of every American who eats beef, pork or chicken,

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

Faster, faster, get that product out the door!' is the industry byword, ... The results are cuts, amputations, skin disease, permanent arm and shoulder damage, and even death from the force of repeated hard cutting motions. When injured employees seek workers' compensation claims for their juries, they are told, 'You got hurt at home, not on the job.'

I've been doing prison monitoring for many years, and the consistency of the complaints indicates that there was a serious problem at Jena, ... Just about every inmate who was interviewed said they saw someone else abused, or were abused themselves.

These men were victims of a Justice Department that was willing to do an end-run around the law. Criminal suspects are treated better than these material witnesses were.

The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit.

Inmates should not have to face the choice of putting out or being beaten up. If this were the only case in Texas, you could say, 'Oh, it seems extreme.' But Texas has been notorious for sexual violence.