Education Quote by Christopher Zoukis

“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US…

— Jarod Kintz

“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison…

— Nigel Brennan

“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds…

— Steven Donziger

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to…

— Christopher Zoukis

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“For the good of society and America's prisoners, it's time to put Pell grants and other forms of need-based financial assistance back on the…

— Christopher Zoukis

“In 2008, one in a hundred American adults was behind bars. Just what manner of people does our prison policy reveal us to be?”

— David Cay Johnston

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

— Bernie Sanders

“You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.”

— Piper Kerman