Canada Quote by Jane Jacobs

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the…

— Cecily McMillan

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the…

— Michelle Alexander

Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and…

— Michelle Alexander

The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The…

— Ayn Rand

Jail is just the government's way of sending you to your room.

— Syzzer

“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

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

— Ayn Rand

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the…

— Eddie Griffin

When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on…

— Clint Smith

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing…

— Rush Limbaugh

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing…

— George Carlin