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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

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

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

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

— Frank Herbert

The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers,…

— 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

Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and to actually…

— Crispin Blunt

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

— Charlie Kirk

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

— John Grisham

I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time -…

— Peter Moskos

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

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