Crime Quote by Lewis E. Lawes

“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

“[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

“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to…

— Christopher Zoukis

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

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the…

— Charlie Shrem

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form…

— Antonio Negri

“The American prisoner's greatest obstacle to achieving something of importance is a lack of communication with the outside world. When prison administrators manage to…

— Christopher Zoukis

“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

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

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

“Guidance rather than deterrence is the answer to crime. It is the only course that promises permanence. Prison walls must not be permitted to…

— Lewis E. Lawes