Far Quote by Bill Shorten

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

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

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that…

— Amaury Nolasco

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

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs…

— Matteo Salvini

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

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

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

— Ava DuVernay

“We must all accept responsibility for our actions, else the world becomes unlivable. Yet it would be a tremendous social advance if we made…

— Gabor Maté

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

— Steve Earle

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman