Business Quote by Trevor Paglen

“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

“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds…

— Steven Donziger

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

— Jack Levin

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other…

— David Dellinger

We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated…

— Cornel West

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about…

— Ava DuVernay

I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches mean that…

— David Gauke

I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began taking the…

— Michelle Alexander

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

— Anonymous

I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to…

— Ava DuVernay

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano