Quotes about Prisons

Convictions are prisons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

I don't know what qualifies this guy to even think he's an authority of prisons.

Steve Kenneway

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

Jerry Weller

It's not security measures, it's not prisons in Madrid and walls in Africa that will solve the problem.

Alpha Oumar Konare

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

I don't have any control over what the prisons do.

Debbie Scott

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

Frederic Bastiat

The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families.

William Schulz

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

Richard Wright

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Virginia Woolf

We don't want to become prisons of a calendar. We want to go to the roots of the whole matter; we need to know the truth.

Dr Ruhakana Rugunda

They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' prisons.

Cort Jensen

Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal prisons are illegal aliens and given the strain illegal immigration puts on our health care, it's a small price to pay.

Joe Kasper

We can't keep building prisons or we will have to start closing schools. We need to be smarter.

Tom Moore

One can't build prisons and walls in Africa, on our territory. One won't regulate it that way.

Alpha Oumar Konare

I thought I was about over my anger, and I found out Tuesday evening from the Bureau of Prisons that I have a long way to go. I have tried so hard to get over this anger and now I find out that Fortier is going to be hugging his kids again - when he helped take ours away. How is that justice?

Jannie Coverdale

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Howard Skolnik

Prisons are not institutions that are set up for that purpose, so when you have somebody who needs that degree of care and attention, obviously, it's going to be much more expensive. Certainly, it is much more cost effective in an institution, whether a nursing home or hospice, to be cared for by a staff trained to do that.

Bryan King

The four prisons are still going to be built. This project is underway as we speak.

Bheki Manzini

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Jerry Brown

The confirmed number by the American forces now is 14,600 Iraqis detained in American prisons alone and we understand that the people of Iraq, their friends and family are suffering from that, too.

Allan Slater

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

Jack Buck