Because Quote by Eugene Jarecki

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

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

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

“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

“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

The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The numbers and…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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

“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

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees re-offending. Instead…

— Ann Widdecombe

I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches mean that…

— David Gauke

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one…

— Eugene Jarecki