Concerned Quote by Eugene V. Debs

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our…

— Michel Foucault

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

— William Shakespeare

Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.

— Lee L Jampolsky

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what…

— Anonymous

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

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on…

— Rachel Maddow

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are…

— Jean Anouilh

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

— Barbara Deming

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

— Anonymous

Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.

— James Forman, Jr

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

— Laura Prepon