Capital punishment Quote by Ruby Dee

Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and…

— Michelle Alexander

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

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

— Jerry Weller

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

— Henry Giroux

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

— Gale Sayers

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

— Bernie Sanders

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper…

— Thomas Frank

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

— Robert D. Hare

As governor, I am not interested in building more prisons.

— Mike Parson

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

— Angela Davis