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Prisons Quotes by Pete Earley
- People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is…
- Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive…
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- All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black
- Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille
- Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and… — Lisa Bonet
- Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton
- More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol
- A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons. — Rick Steves
- Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes,… — Rajneesh