American Quote by Conrad Black

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

— Jerry Brown

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

— Malcolm X

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

— Steve Earle

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

“The public expects sentences to be punitive but also rehabilitative; however, what we expect and what we get from our prisons are very different…

— Piper Kerman

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs,…

— Bobby Scott

“[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

Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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

And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race. Again, we…

— Byron Katie