Mainstream Economy Quote by Piper Kerman

“A comfortable prison was still a prison.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

— Nelson Mandela

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the…

— Eugene Jarecki

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

“...not with the Depression walking around outside the prison walls like a dangerous criminal, one that couldn't be caged as our charges were.”

— Stephen King

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

— Angela Y. Davis

“The paradigm is a terrible prison.”

— not using any f Bertrand Piccard. 2015 Bertrand Piccard flew with a solar-airplane around the world

“[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

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

“Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my prison. There…

— Kitty Thomas