Character Quote by Peter Kropotkin

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time…

— Gregory David Roberts

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

— Peter Kropotkin

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches mean that…

— David Gauke

“Guidance rather than deterrence is the answer to crime. It is the only course that promises permanence. Prison walls must not be permitted to…

— Lewis E. Lawes

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

In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.

— William Wordsworth

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the…

— Barbara Deming

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau