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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons…

— Sally Yates

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

— Ricky Gervais

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

— Eve Ensler

In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective…

— David Von Drehle

“(Take a second look at those figures – human population has increased fourteenfold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If there were a Pulitzer for bleak irony, however, it would go to the News for its Saturday-morning report on one of the most…

— Erik Larson

In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In…

— Vandana Shiva

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal…

— Norman Lock

You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of…

— Abby Lee Miller

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it…

— Mike Epps

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in…

— Michael Badnarik

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison…

— Jimmy Fallon