Prisons Quotes

Most prisons have wide gates!

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

School is another word for jail

— Emopop

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Convictions are prisons.

— Anonymous

Are there no prisons?

— Anonymous

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

— James Cook

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

— William Shakespeare

I know prisons from the inside.

— Jose Mujica

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

— Peter Kropotkin

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis

I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.

— George Pelecanos

“Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens.”

— Paul Graham

“The darkest prisons were those of the mind.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

— Benjamin Franklin

“rip the prisons open put the convicts on television”

— Norman Mailer

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

— Jack Levin

“All hells in this world are the prisons you make in your own heart; all battles must be fought there'," said Charlie.…

— Darren McKeeman

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing…

— John Taylor Gatto

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

— Mike Singletary

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

— Jamie Fellner

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

— John Taylor Gatto

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

— Paul Watson

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

— Alberto Manguel

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

“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes…

— Jarod Kintz

Gitmo is everywhere in the world. We need to raise awareness of illegal prisons in Middle East, Asia, and Africa. This needs…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything…

— Hassan Nasrallah

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and…

— Ji-Hae Park

Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal. But during my time in academia, it became increasingly clear that…

— Kayleigh McEnany

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You…

— Eddie Griffin

It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions - and the degree to which some states discourage reading by…

— George Pelecanos

The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily…

— Maajid Nawaz

In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security…

— Vijay Iyer

“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

We have a number of brothers left in the prisons, about 15 of them. And for the most part, they're in bad…

— Sekou Odinga

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes…

— Howard Marks

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

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is…

— Victoria Woodhull

“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

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