Country Quote by W. Kamau Bell

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

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

— Barbara Deming

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

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

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

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

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in…

— Vladimir Putin

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

— Molly Ivins

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more…

— Joseph Brodsky

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are…

— Jean Anouilh

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

— Angela Davis

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay