Crime Quote by Michelle Alexander

Public housing projects as well as private landlords are free to deny housing to people with criminal records. In fact, you don't even have…

— Michelle Alexander

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

— Henry David Thoreau

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

— John Popper

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

— Jack Kerouac

It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who…

— Michael Portillo

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

— Fela Kuti

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

I know prisons from the inside.

— Jose Mujica

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits. You're relegated…

— Michelle Alexander

Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know, what you…

— Michelle Alexander

I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

— Carrie Snow