By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire jail will likely be infected. Most jails have people living in very close quarters. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
Stop and frisk – whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car – is a civil rights violation. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me is a fine example – even if I disagreed with some of their choices. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
People are shaped in myriad ways by their upbringing and family. We also have agency in our lives, the people we become, and the lives we lead. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
I don’t expect to ever put my family background to rest but I do expect to be taken seriously as a scholar, a writer and a Latin Americanist on my own terms, not defined through my parents and their history or politics. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
Being a foreigner – especially a white and relatively wealthy one – in poor, underdeveloped countries is inherently fraught. Chesa Boudin Read Quote
