Cutting Quote by Janis Karpinski

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller…

— Eugene Jarecki

What are people released from prison expected to do? How are they expected to survive? Can't get a job, locked out of housing, and…

— Michelle Alexander

Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need…

— J. B. Pritzker

People are released from prison so unprepared. They give you $200. We call it gate money. And you have to pay for a bus…

— Susan Burton

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply…

— David Gauke

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

— Jerry Brown

I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's nothing I…

— Draymond Green

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

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