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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— John D. MacDonald

Whilst long prison sentences will always be right for those who commit the most serious crimes, particularly of a violent or sexual nature, the…

— David Gauke

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

— Najib Razak

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

— Polly Toynbee

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three…

— Yakov Smirnoff

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder

A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.

— Sadat X

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

— Yusuf Hamied

“Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. So long as large numbers of African…

— Michelle Alexander

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice…

— Antoinette Bosco