Arms Quote by 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

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

“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell…

— Piper Kerman

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

“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have self-perpetuating features.”

— David Cay Johnston

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller…

— Eugene Jarecki

Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for…

— Mary B. Harris

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think…

— Angela Davis

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison…

— 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

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

— Malcolm X

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum