Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.” — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. — David Warlick Copy Share Image
I had spent three years in jails and prisons, and then all of a sudden I'm in Japan in this dojo. It… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came… — Tahar Rahim Copy Share Image
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
I have witnessed and heard countless reports of young black men routinely targeted and recruited by various subversive groups. One of the… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
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