Abolition Quote by Angela Y. Davis

“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison…

— Nigel Brennan

“Every society has the criminals that it deserves.”

— Havelock Ellis

“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

— Nelson Mandela

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable.…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and…

— Michelle Alexander

“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could…

— Jeff Wheeler

“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to…

— Edward Humes

“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.”

— Sir Walter Raleigh

“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked…

— Michelle Alexander