Business Quote by Henry Rollins

“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

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

— Michel Foucault

The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers,…

— Michelle Alexander

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

— Tom Hayden

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

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

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

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

— Bernie Sanders

What we're doing in San Francisco and what we're doing with other criminal justice partners across the state and across the country is anything…

— Chesa Boudin

“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds…

— Steven Donziger

“Not surprisingly, this huge American “industry” has huge political clout—with the expansion of prosecutorial and correctional workers’ power, the growing number of lobbyists for…

— David Cay Johnston

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks