Introduction Quote by Asma Jahangir

It was a big surprise learning how many women work in men's prisons. There are people with mental health problems, people who have made…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until…

— Assata Shakur

“Under Zia’s regime life for women in Pakistan became much more restricted. Jinnah said, “No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by…

— Malala Yousafzai

There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When…

— Patricia Arquette

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

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

— Patricia Arquette

Non-custodial sentences are certainly something to look at, more support in the community rather than within prisons is something we have to look at.…

— David Gauke

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't…

— Cressida Dick

“Worldwide, more men are raped in prisons each year than women outside”

— Adam Anderson

Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.

— Raveena Tandon

“These women were like her sisters. Even if she wanted desperately to be free of them. Sometimes the strongest prisons were the ones created…

— Tess Uriza Holthe

Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One, they can't…

— Joe Biden