Business Quote by Crispin Blunt

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

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at…

— Piper Kerman

“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

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

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

— Eduardo Galeano

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one…

— Eugene Jarecki

“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

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

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

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

— Frank Herbert

“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