Life Quote by C Murder

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go…

— Richard Pryor

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

— Ava DuVernay

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at…

— Piper Kerman

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in…

— Vladimir Putin

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply…

— David Gauke

I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced.

— Isaac Wright Jr

“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

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison…

— Michelle Alexander

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

— Kevin Gates

I think any time you're able to humanize the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated, then you're doing your job.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

— Angela Davis