Crime Quote by Jerry Brown

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

— Malcolm X

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

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

— Malcolm X

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

— Conrad Black

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that…

— Amaury Nolasco

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

— Anonymous

Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first,…

— Chelsea Manning

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.…

— Peter McWilliams

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

In addition to making sense and serving the needs of justice, rehabilitating prisoners and releasing them when they are ready can save taxpayers money.

— Charlie Kirk

Prisons are big businesses, which I hadn't realized. A lot of these name brand labels that we wear - they're using prison labor and…

— Da Brat