Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
Cammie McGovernTags: parenthood prisons
One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents
Angela Y. DavisTags: economy prisons people-of-color
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
Victor HugoTags: love crime illness cross christ victor-hugo hospitals judges prisons gallows the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man
[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
Angela Y. DavisTags: society capitalism racism sociology prisons
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy RooneyTags: christianity religion atheism goodness prison christians prisons devout devouts
All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years.
Avi SteinbergThe least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Jane GoodallTags: science hope dead chimpanzees chimps speak miserable prisons
All hells in this world are the prisons you make in your own heart; all battles must be fought there'," said Charlie. "My grandma used to say that to me.
Darren McKeemanTags: battles chinese-wisdom prisons hells fought
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
Alexander BerkmanTags: power stupidity cruelty inhumanity prisons
rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television
Tags: america usa prison television prisoners guilty criminal tv jail criminals prisons convicts
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