Prison Quote by Steven Donziger

“building prisons is our number one social program for young men.”

— Gavin de Becker

“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US…

— Jarod Kintz

“[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

“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

“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

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only their prison…

— Nigel Brennan

“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

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know we need…

— Tuvia Tenenbom

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have self-perpetuating features.”

— David Cay Johnston