My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.