“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The years go by too quickly to waste them in silent prisons of hate.” — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.” — Paul W. Silver Copy Share Image
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons. — Yolanda King 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
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. — Eric Holder 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
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
“That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.” — William MacGregor Robson 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
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or… — Erica R. Meiners Copy Share Image
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux 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 prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos 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
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
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