Accounts Quote by Eugene V. Debs

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter…

— Michelle Alexander

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

— Laura Prepon

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as…

— Heather Mac Donald

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

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

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

— Eugene V. Debs

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay