Quotes About Incarceration system

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

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.

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

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.

In our society, if an individual commits a crime, he or she is sent to prison and they're supposed to repay their debt to society by serving their time. But, more and more, our institutions are taking away educational programs; they're taking away the Pell Grants so that people can take college courses.

It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we view those people who have been labeled criminals.

building prisons is our number one social program for young men

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-hole, a double iron door, and were called dungeons ; but the dungeon has been thought too horrible; now it is composed ofan iron door, a grated air-hole, a camp bed, a pavement of tiles, a ceiling of stone, four stone walls, and it is called punishment cell.

Believe me, England's prisons are full of splendid people.

We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!