Depravity Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met…

— Peter Kropotkin

“In the penal system, where many of these people would eventually end up, the rapidly growing problem of petty crime had already led to…

— Richard J. Evans

“The prison population consists of heterogeneous elements; but, taking only those who are usually described as 'the criminals' proper, and of whom we have…

— Peter Kropotkin

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper…

— Thomas Frank

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

“[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 moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of…

— Clint Smith

“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

“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or an understanding…

— Erica R. Meiners

“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

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