Education Quote by Nigel Brennan

“Greed is the prison of poverty.”

— Evans Biya

“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

— Angela Y. Davis

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

— Douglas Hurd

“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say about our…

— Christopher Zoukis

“Ignorance is the prison that confines us, but true education is the key that sets us free.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

“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 education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to…

— Christopher Zoukis

“The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.”

— Dennis Prager

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

“[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

“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds…

— Steven Donziger

“For the good of society and America's prisoners, it's time to put Pell grants and other forms of need-based financial assistance back on the…

— Christopher Zoukis