Cold turkey Quote by Michael Hardt

“Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...”

— Arthur Koestler

“[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 is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

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

— Shira Hassan

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

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will…

— Mark Fisher

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

“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

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

“Life is not meant to be a montage of catastrophes. It’s also not a giant prison, and neither are these bizarre, meaty casings we…

— Anne Clendening

Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not you get…

— Chelsea Manning