“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
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“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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“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
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