George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

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

We think it's OK for us to have the world's largest prison population and for one racial group to be overrepresented therein.

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

Too many Americans are going to too many prisons for far too long.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.

For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.

We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother's incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they're black.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We have some 2.2 million people in jail. What that means is that a lot of lives are being destroyed.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.