incarceration system Quotes

Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events.

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

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

I think it's critically important for people to understand that this system of mass incarceration governs not just those who find themselves in prison on any given day, but also all those who are in jail, on probation or parole, as well as all those who are just months away from being locked up again because they are unable to find work or housing due to their criminal record.

I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.

I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or control.

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

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.