Credit Quote by Philip Davies

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

— Malcolm X

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

I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or…

— Eve Ensler

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

— Arthur Gore

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people…

— Laura Prepon

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

— Jerry Brown

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

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

— Molly Ivins

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are…

— Jean Anouilh

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

“...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