Amount Quote by Robert Peel

What we have to do is make sure there are prison places for those sent to prison by the courts and we will continue…

— Crispin Blunt

I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced.

— Isaac Wright Jr

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

— Angela Davis

There are many innocent people in prison.

— Brian Banks

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

— Angela Davis

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

— David Lidington

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

— Claire McCaskill

I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in…

— Peter Moskos

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander

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