Crime Quote by Michelle Lujan Grisham

“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal…

— Maryn McKenna

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public…

— Conrad Black

When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on…

— Clint Smith

There are numerous issues that governments used to deal with that they now no longer deal with to the same extent: Prisons have been…

— Mary Robinson

“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

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's…

— Noam Chomsky

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock

“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone, including phone…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Eduardo Galeano

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith