Prison System Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system. — Iggy Pop
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live… — Henry Louis Gates
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one… — George Bernard Shaw
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. — Ava DuVernay
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction. — Stedman Graham
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the… — Joan Halifax
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. — Serj Tankian
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 thrown… — Lee Tergesen
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime… — Michelle Alexander
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me… — Chuck Palahniuk
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes… — Emmeline Pankhurst
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation,… — Bill Johnson
With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the… — Steve Buscemi

Who Wrote These Prison System Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Prison System Quotes as follows: