Crime Quote by David Gauke

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum

Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they're also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers, bear the…

— Ralph Northam

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

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

— Malcolm X

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so…

— Angela Davis

What are people released from prison expected to do? How are they expected to survive? Can't get a job, locked out of housing, and…

— Michelle Alexander

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

— Angela Davis

Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be much tougher…

— David Lidington

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

Whilst long prison sentences will always be right for those who commit the most serious crimes, particularly of a violent or sexual nature, the…

— David Gauke