Crime Quote by David Lidington

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

— Henry David Thoreau

It was a big surprise learning how many women work in men's prisons. There are people with mental health problems, people who have made…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

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

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are…

— Jean Anouilh

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

“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

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Malcolm X

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau