Prisons Quotes · Page 6

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and…

— Lisa Bonet

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in…

— Fran Lebowitz

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

— Daniel Alarcon

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

— Henry Giroux

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you…

— Horace Mann

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

— David Lidington

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

— Anonymous

The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.

— Yo Gotti

“In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the…

— James Berryman

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces…

— Clint Smith

The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump]…

— Ava DuVernay

I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based…

— Lex Luger

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all…

— Jeff Cooper

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't…

— Rob Woodall

County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails…

— Elizabeth Flock

Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half…

— Michelle Alexander

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

— Truman Capote

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online…

— Maajid Nawaz

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

— Robert Greene

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms…

— Dana Goldstein

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those…

— W. Kamau Bell

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and…

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

— Bruce Schneier

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

— Ted Simon

“Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.”

— Colin Higgins

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

— Jack Herer

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

— Burt Reynolds

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

— Tom Rooney

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are…

— Hillary Clinton

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

— Conrad Black

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

— Tupac Shakur

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

— Lysa TerKeurst

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

— Charlie Kirk

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

— Chris Grayling

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

— Jimmy Carter

School is like a jail and your the prisoner that gets caught every time you get bail

— Kells