If you're willing to give convicts time served and let them walk, why do you want to give them a criminal record? I mean, either they should be in ja…

- Peter Moskos

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in prison. It would hav…

- Peter Moskos

I'm not fond of ideologies. I don't like it when people have answers before they know the question.

- Peter Moskos

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to tel…

- Peter Moskos

Although I consider myself pretty liberal, I'm not against punishment. There's nothing wrong with punishing someone who has done something wrong. Or …

- Peter Moskos

I say a few good things about Canada in the book, you know. Americans are weird, though. We refuse to look at other countries. Start with Canadians -…

- Peter Moskos

These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, m…

- Peter Moskos

I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time - and then they'll fight for bette…

- Peter Moskos

The thing I wrote we ought to look to Canada for is the shorter sentences. I mean, the mess we're in here, is because of the drug war and this idea o…

- Peter Moskos