#prisons

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

— Angela Davis

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

— Angela Davis

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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. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. ↗

— Jerry Weller

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I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. ↗

— James Inhofe

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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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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

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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ↗

— Richard Burton

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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. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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