Prison Quotes

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It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton
The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the… — Bill Vaughan
We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have… — Gore Vidal
The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete… — Ronald Reagan
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter
I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's… — Madonna Ciccone
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms… — Michel Foucault
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments… — Thomas Frank
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and… — Kinky Friedman
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have… — Carlos Fuentes
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. — Henry Louis Gates
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. — William Glasser
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. — Germaine Greer
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham
Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. — John Grisham
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to… — Cyril Connolly
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and… — James Connolly
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. — Clarence Darrow

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