Crime Quote by Jessica Mitford

“[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 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

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

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay

“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

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

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

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

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

— Malcolm X