Crime Quote by Jeff 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

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

— Eugene V. Debs

“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have self-perpetuating features.”

— David Cay Johnston

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

The aim has got to be to maximize the opportunities for prisoners, having got themselves clean and got themselves some training, to have the…

— Crispin Blunt

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

“building prisons is our number one social program for young men.”

— Gavin de Becker

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

The combination of brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit should lead us to a safer and more secure future.

— Vinod Khosla

Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and to actually…

— Crispin Blunt

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

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson