Complexes Quote by Ava DuVernay

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one…

— Eugene Jarecki

We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated…

— Cornel West

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black…

— Ava DuVernay

“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone, including phone…

— Michelle Alexander

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic…

— Eugene Jarecki

Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison labor and…

— Da Brat

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels…

— Trevor Paglen

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

— Yael Stone

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

— Michel Foucault