Affluent Quote by Eric Sevareid

“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

America's a rich man's vision, but a poor man's prison

— Anonymous

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

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

“We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.”

— J.G. Ballard

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

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“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

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman