#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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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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You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. ↗

— John Grisham

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

— John Ruskin

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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. ↗

— Cammie McGovern

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