Capitalism Quote by Eugene V. Debs

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

— Eduardo Galeano

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

“[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

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

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

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

— James Bovard

“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

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

— Elbert Hubbard

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the…

— Barbara Deming

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

— Jeff Smith

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

— John Grisham