College Quote by Ralph Northam

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions -…

— Jamaal Bowman

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

— Gale Sayers

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

— Michelle Alexander

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

— Chris Crass

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

— John Ruskin

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel…

— Bobby Scott

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

— Tom Hayden

We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms of discrimination…

— Michelle Alexander

“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