Offender Quotes

We're protecting offenders from false accusations. ... We're not stiff-arming anybody, and it's not an additional punishment. - Mike Stack

We're investigating whether its appropriate for the offenders that are under our watch to live there. - Kim Evans

We're here to help them with setting goals. Hopelessness is a lot of why we have high rates of recidivism among young offenders. With this program, we are trying to get them to focus on things that will keep them out of trouble. We want to show them and society that they're not throwaway kids. - Robin Sohnen

We're essentially seeing people forced into refugee status. The experts say the major thing in preventing recidivism is to allow offenders to rebuild their lives, put down roots. But because of feel-good, poorly-thought-out, knee-jerk reactions by politicians, the effect is to increase recidivism. - William Buckman

We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole hearings. - Alison Parker

We will show no mercy on offenders. We must uphold the justice in sport. - Liu Peng

We still have laws for this type of crime that allow offenders to be released before they complete all of their initial sentence. - Mark Plowden

We just gave them a few basic instructions and they didn't really do what I asked them to do. I asked them at halftime, they play a very compact game and they like to start everything in the middle and work their way out, so I asked our guys at halftime to start playing the ball wider and over the top of their last offender and they just didn't do it as much as they should have. - Tim Kearney

We have tried to focus on offenders right after they enter the detention center. When people have a long sentence hanging over their head, it is the best carrot to entice them to sign up for the program. - Lee Kempert