“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
“The situation was fast approaching that of 1863, when Chicago doctors labeled the prison an extermination camp.” — George Levy Copy Share Image
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was - and then there I wasn't. Too bad. The… — John Heard Copy Share Image
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
