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- 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… — Piper Kerman
- America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Michelle Alexander
- I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are… — Chuck Palahniuk
- The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to… — Emmeline Pankhurst