#prisons

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#another #bill #billions #build #congress

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#come #congress #discuss #evening #family

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ↗

— John Powell

#been #children #more #our #percent

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#does #growing #growing up #his #i

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Jack Herer

#dead #hands #only #police #prisons

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

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

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

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

— Jerry Brown

#prisons #protect #punish

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

— Virginia Woolf

#others #our #prisons #their #thoughts

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#despair #dreams #give #how #intellectual