Crime Quote by Michelle Alexander

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

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

“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws that mandate…

— David Cay Johnston

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison…

— Piper Kerman

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

— Jerry Brown

We have to use incarceration to set people up on a path to stability, so they do not continue committing crimes when they return…

— Wes Moore

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first,…

— Chelsea Manning

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted…

— Michael Howard

“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions on their…

— David Cay Johnston

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

— Michel Foucault

“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to…

— Piper Kerman