Quotes About Reform

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other people do. They're just as nice.

I was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison.

I just don't think somebody that's been to prison is allowed to say what the standard is.

The aim has got to be to maximize the opportunities for prisoners, having got themselves clean and got themselves some training, to have the best possible chance of going straight when they come out.

Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.

I know prisons from the inside.

Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

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

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

As governor, I am not interested in building more prisons.

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.

I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

I expect there will be more private schools.

Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do that better.