Crime Quote by Erica R. Meiners

“[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

“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

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

“Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed.”

— Chriscinthia Blount

“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

“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

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

— Conrad Black

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

— 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

Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson