Prisons Quotes · Page 7

We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to…

— Hillary Clinton

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

— Talib Kweli

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our…

— Angela Davis

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

— Asma Jahangir

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

— Tupac Shakur

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

— Lysa TerKeurst

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

— Chris Grayling

Whereas robocalls are ever-present, the problem of contraband cellphones in prisons - that is, cellphones illegally being used by inmates - is…

— Ajit Pai

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau…

— Sally Yates

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons -…

— Pete Earley

“[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

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…

— Jonathan Kozol

“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a…

— Avi Steinberg

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

— Charlie Kirk

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

— Conrad Black

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

— Sydney Rogers

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

— Jerry Brown

“If they let you out,” Kaltain said, both of them staring into the blackness of their prisons, “make sure that they’re punished…

— Sarah J. Maas

Or is it the mind state thats ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build.

— Talib Kweli

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would…

— Joseph Brodsky

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

— Jimmy Carter

School is like a jail and your the prisoner that gets caught every time you get bail

— Kells

“I knew from experience that next to jail the place with the highest concentration of trifling bitches was elementary school.”

— Patricia Williams

“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they…

— B.J. Ward

“Seems fitting, when you consider that both prisons and schools are known for serving sub-par food and having group exercise yards.”

— Anonymous

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

— Robert Greene

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms…

— Dana Goldstein

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those…

— W. Kamau Bell

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and…

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

— Jack Herer

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

— Bruce Schneier

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

— Ted Simon