Black Quote by Terry McMillan

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private…

— Clint Smith

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

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

— Piper Kerman

I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

— Richard Linklater

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

— Chris Grayling

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, rural communities, and thus a new and bizarre form of segregation has emerged in recent…

— Michelle Alexander

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

— Michel Foucault