Crime Quote by Evan Esar

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— 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

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

— Jerry Brown

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own…

— James Ussher

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No persons suffer…

— Mae Brussell

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes…

— Carl Hart