There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching. — Peter Orner 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 tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.” — Rodney Dangerfield 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
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
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our… — Hillary Clinton 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
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man… — Lucy Freeman 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
School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 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 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
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 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
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,… — George Carlin 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
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ? — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat. — Chesa Boudin 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
“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.” — Paul W. Silver 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
