Addiction Quote by Angela Davis

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

— 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

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 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

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so…

— Angela Davis

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

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

— Barbara Deming

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

People coming out of jail need a path back into society: access to a job, a place to live, supportive services. We've seen what…

— London Breed

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

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