California Quote by Tom Hayden

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

— Henry Giroux

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

— Chris Crass

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few…

— Randall Jarrell

When you have all these new police officers and resource officers coming into schools, what I'm worried is going to happen is we're going…

— David Hogg

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

We must end the school-to-prison pipeline and create a pipeline from our high schools and community colleges directly to jobs for those who choose…

— Ralph Northam

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

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

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

— Peter Kropotkin

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Gale Sayers

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

— Marian Wright Edelman