In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your… — Babar Ahmad Copy Share Image
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I… — Kayla Mueller Copy Share Image
“He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster. — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash… — Brian Banks Copy Share Image
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do.… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
