Community Quote by J. B. Pritzker

Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the…

— Sally Yates

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

Redemption and rehabilitation for formerly incarcerated individuals is best achieved when they are able to reintegrate back into the community as productive members.

— Alex Padilla

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at…

— Piper Kerman

What makes a lot of sense is that, while people are incarcerated, give them the tools they need to be able to have a…

— Valerie Jarrett

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

— Chris Grayling

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

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

— Chris Grayling

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison…

— Michelle Alexander

People coming out of jail need a path back into society: access to a job, a place to live, supportive services. We've seen what…

— London Breed