Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new… — Michelle Alexander 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
Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness. — Victor Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
“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
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
As a left-wing campaigner for 35 years, I've been arrested on picket lines, led anti-imperialist demonstrations and spoken at anti-deportation protests outside… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
It's not all about building police forces and more prisons. This is in a sense an abdication of what the rule of… — George Stamatis Copy Share Image
Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly,… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons -… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
