Asylums Quote by Victoria Woodhull

“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal…

— Maryn McKenna

Our asylum system is sick.

— Romano L. Mazzoli

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

— James Cook

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison…

— Fela Kuti

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away.…

— John Kennedy Toole

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Jack Levin

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully…

— Rush Limbaugh

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

— Mohsin Hamid

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a…

— Antony Starr