Abolition Quote by Barbara Deming

“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

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes…

— Carl Hart

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Ava DuVernay

“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the…

— Cecily McMillan

“Right, that's exactly what I mean by your being both the prisoner and the jailer.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

“He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.”

— Ogden Nash