Crime Quote by David Gauke

Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common…

— Ken Cuccinelli

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.…

— Peter McWilliams

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter…

— Michelle Alexander

It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner…

— Michelle Alexander

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up…

— Dahlia Lithwick

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going…

— Nelson Mandela

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of…

— P.W. Thirion

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman

The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.

— David Steward

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they…

— Ann Widdecombe