Health Quote by Clint Smith

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where…

— Reid Hoffman

Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not you get…

— Chelsea Manning

Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison labor and…

— Da Brat

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

“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

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in…

— Michael Badnarik

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they…

— Chris Grayling

Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they're also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers, bear the…

— Ralph Northam