Costs Quote by Elizabeth Flock

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

“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

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they…

— Van Jones

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

— Jerry Brown

“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have self-perpetuating features.”

— David Cay Johnston

“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

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining public safety…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know we need…

— Tuvia Tenenbom

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would…

— John Paul Stevens