Abolitionist Quote by Ava DuVernay

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

— Stedman Graham

“Taking an abolitionist stance does not mean refusing to engage in incremental change, nor does it mean abandoning efforts to improve conditions inside prisons.…

— Eric A. Stanley

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

— Jack Abbott

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.…

— Peter McWilliams

“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

I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a…

— Susan Rosenberg

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at…

— Piper Kerman

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan