“Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion” — william blake Copy Share Image
“prisons were built based on our third grade Iowa Basics test scores,” — Mark O'Neal Copy Share Image
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.” — Fiona Davis Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own… — Robin Hobb 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
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. — David Warlick 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
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of… — Zephyr Teachout 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
“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty… — Colin Warner 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
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools.… — Jesse Jackson 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
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
In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products:… — Jacque Fresco 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
One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont 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
Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which… — Michelle Alexander 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
If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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