Currents Quote by Jamie Fellner

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

— Hillary Clinton

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to…

— Peter Moskos

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison…

— Fela Kuti

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent…

— Sadiq Khan

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

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

— Malcolm X

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the…

— Angela Davis

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid