Bits Quote by Thomas Frank

“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

“Prison administration is concerned with this phase of procedure because of the generally accepted notion--in and out of prisons--that money can get away with…

— Lewis E. Lawes

We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always…

— Rush Limbaugh

In addition to making sense and serving the needs of justice, rehabilitating prisoners and releasing them when they are ready can save taxpayers money.

— Charlie Kirk

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating…

— Kamala Harris

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one…

— Eugene Jarecki

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

I want to see prison numbers come down. We need better custody that cuts reoffending and crime. And we need to ensure judges, magistrates…

— David Lidington

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

— Jerry Weller

So if you want a really effective criminal justice strategy, you don't build bigger prisons, you invest money in young kids - and you…

— Keir Starmer

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the…

— Eugene Jarecki