“Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.” — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America. — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons,… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
We can work to get queer and trans people out of the prisons and jails and off the streets, and to improve… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
“Because there is no opportunity to act. It is always wise to talk a great deal, discussing what has been done and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“He cannot lock us all up.” “He has prisons enough.” “For bodies, yes. But what are bodies? He can take our goods,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
I am Heart of David because Heart of David Ministry, the Ministry is a Ministry of evangelism. It's like I'm the chief… — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
