Ability Quote by Clint Smith

“Not surprisingly, this huge American “industry” has huge political clout—with the expansion of prosecutorial and correctional workers’ power, the growing number of lobbyists for…

— 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

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining public safety…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone, including phone…

— Michelle Alexander

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public…

— Conrad Black

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton