Articles Quote by Antonio Gramsci

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for…

— Mike DeWine

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

— Jamie Fellner

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent…

— Sadiq Khan

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

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens…

— Pete Earley

When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to come forward…

— Vivek Murthy

Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not you get…

— Chelsea Manning

“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal…

— Maryn McKenna

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a…

— Antony Starr

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to…

— Chris Wood

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to…

— Peter Moskos