Basic Quote by Eugene Jarecki

“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

We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always…

— Rush Limbaugh

For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the book "Prison…

— Michelle Alexander

Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison labor and…

— Da Brat

“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 administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and to actually…

— Crispin Blunt

Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating…

— Kamala Harris

Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and…

— Michelle Alexander

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper…

— Thomas Frank

“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

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic…

— Eugene Jarecki