Function Quote by Malcolm X

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

— Malcolm X

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

— Jerry Brown

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

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

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

— Charlie Kirk

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

“The public expects sentences to be punitive but also rehabilitative; however, what we expect and what we get from our prisons are very different…

— Piper Kerman

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

— Conrad Black

Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan…

— 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

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies