“The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral… — William Ryan Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16… — Ronnie Corbett Copy Share Image
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I was released from prison, I didn't want to leave my house for the first three months. — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
