Becoming Quote by Mary Robinson

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

— Angela Davis

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the…

— Angela Davis

We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always…

— Rush Limbaugh

Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining public safety…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the…

— Barbara Deming

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— 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

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal…

— Michelle Alexander

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson