Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“The years go by too quickly to waste them in silent prisons of hate.” — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. — David Warlick Copy Share Image
I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness. — Victor Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.” — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.” — Paul W. Silver Copy Share Image
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison… — US Dept. of Education Copy Share Image
It was a big surprise learning how many women work in men's prisons. There are people with mental health problems, people who… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I've been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty… — Colin Warner Copy Share Image
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools.… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad… — Sekou Odinga Copy Share Image
“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
