Built Quote by Eduardo Galeano

“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US…

— Jarod Kintz

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

— Robin Hobb

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

— James Bovard

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

“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

“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

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

— Eugene V. Debs

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

— Frank Herbert

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in…

— Vladimir Putin

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

— Jerry Weller