Disappear Quote by Angela Davis

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the…

— Angela Davis

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the…

— Barbara Deming

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

— Barbara Deming

There are numerous issues that governments used to deal with that they now no longer deal with to the same extent: Prisons have been…

— Mary Robinson

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

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

— W. Kamau Bell

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet

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

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman