Country Quote by Malcolm X

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

— Jerry Brown

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that…

— Amaury Nolasco

Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.

— James Forman, Jr

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

The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The numbers and…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just…

— Bill Shorten

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

— Jamie Fellner

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

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