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It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until…

— Assata Shakur

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

— Asma Jahangir

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

— Richard Wright

“These women were like her sisters. Even if she wanted desperately to be free of them. Sometimes the strongest prisons were the ones created…

— Tess Uriza Holthe

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the…

— Barbara Deming

“Worldwide, more men are raped in prisons each year than women outside”

— Adam Anderson

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

— David Lidington

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the…

— Michelle Alexander

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in…

— Howard Zinn

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

— Patricia Arquette