Crime Quote by Jessica Mitford

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so…

— Angela Davis

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter…

— Michelle Alexander

“[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

“We must all accept responsibility for our actions, else the world becomes unlivable. Yet it would be a tremendous social advance if we made…

— Gabor Maté

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

— Christopher Lasch

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet…

— Eugene V. Debs

This Life Was Not Created To Be A Prison. It Was Designed To Be A Platform For Creativity And Expression That Is Colourful And…

— Pacifiersucker

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You…

— Max Lucado