Believe Quote by Amaury Nolasco

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

— Malcolm X

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

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

— Jerry Brown

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

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

— Tee Grizzley

There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just…

— Bill Shorten

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is…

— Michelle Alexander

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison…

— Piper Kerman

Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing…

— Polly Toynbee

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.

— James Forman, Jr