Quotes Tagged With :incarceration

Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people....

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she....

We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion....

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her....

As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed....

Because the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, when drug offenders....

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing....

The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these....

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal....

I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are....