Bronx Quote by Jonathan Kozol

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools…

— Angela Davis

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are…

— Howard Dean

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner…

— Michelle Alexander

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other.…

— Mark Twain

School is a jail. Classes are the cells, teachers are the security guards, and students are the prisoners.

— Sydney Rogers

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and…

— Wilbert Rideau

For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level…

— Michelle Alexander

If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail.

— Gerard Way

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

— J. C. Watts