Attention Quote by Clint Smith

“[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 is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

— Adam Gopnik

“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.”

— Bryant McGill

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

— Wentworth Miller

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other…

— David Dellinger

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so…

— Angela Davis

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford