Crime Quote by Elizabeth Flock

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

“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

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

— James Bovard

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

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

— Angela Davis

“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

“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