Health Quote by Robert Martensen

“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If they’re not…

— Jarod Kintz

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

— Alger Hiss

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”

— John Grisham

“He said if he ever got out this time he wouldn’t ever be a prisoner again, not for a salary.”

— Mark Twain

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

— Bernie Sanders

“Laws are cheap of passage, costly of enforcement. They do not execute themselves.”

— Stephen Puleo

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

— John Grisham

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say about our…

— Christopher Zoukis

“A guard is as much a prisoner as those he keeps from freedom.”

— Tananarive Due

“He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“It is not possible for others to keep us prisoners if we want to be free”

— Mimi Novic