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“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

“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

Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and…

— Michelle Alexander

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

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

“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have self-perpetuating features.”

— David Cay Johnston

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

— David Lidington

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the…

— Eugene Jarecki

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the…

— Michelle Alexander

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic…

— Eugene Jarecki

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