Prisons Quotes · Page 6

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.”

— John Green

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys…

— Daniel Quinn

Free yourself from the prisons of your past or you're going to serve the rest of your life in that miserable place.

— Sonya Parker

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

— Jonathan Kozol

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

— Camille Paglia

I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison…

— US Dept. of Education

“The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming…

— P G Wodehouse

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than…

— Van Jones

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on…

— Ann Widdecombe

It was a big surprise learning how many women work in men's prisons. There are people with mental health problems, people who…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,…

— Michelle Alexander

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

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

“It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their…

— Ted Dekker

“bodies becoming like prisons with the person stuck inside. Screaming, or not screaming, but staring at you like you should do something.”

— Elizabeth Strout

A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

— Rick Steves

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

— Laura Prepon

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

— Eoin Colfer

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.

— Chesa Boudin

For the offense with a child putin the jail of crime of getting admission in school there are a large criminal education…

— Mak_786

“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know…

— Tuvia Tenenbom

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

— Philip Zimbardo

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

— Michel Foucault

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because…

— Gregory David Roberts

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones…

— Michel Foucault

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

— A. R. Ammons

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas,…

— Jean Anouilh

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were…

— Janis Karpinski

There's definitely a way to fix the prison system. First of all, you gotta get a rehabilitation center in prisons, that every…

— Tee Grizzley

The first visit I made to Australia was in 1996 when I was the prisons' minister and was looking at other countries'…

— Ann Widdecombe

School is a jail. Classes are the cells, teachers are the security guards and we are the prisoners.

— Anonymous

Some prisons don't have wall. It's so hard when u are stuck into an abyss of ur love for someone long time…

— Anonymous

“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin