Quotes About Incarceration

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

I'll stay in my house and watch 'Lockup,' the prison show.

To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Prison works.

There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'

A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.

I wrote, exercised, ate healthy, and responded to life in prison very well.

There are many innocent people in prison.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply isn't working.

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as well as for communities.

I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone. There has to be more to life inside than that.

The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

What we have to do is make sure there are prison places for those sent to prison by the courts and we will continue to do that regardless of how many people are sent to prison.

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.

I was brought up in a council flat in Islington with only an outside lavatory. And there were plenty of kids I knew who later ended up in prison.