#prisons

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

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#camps #come #concentration #go #latino

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

— Angela Davis

#function #i #prisons #social #social function

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

— Angela Davis

#first of all #get #i #prisons #rid

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

#bound #could #every #exist #experienced

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

— Barbara Deming

#being #date #ever #existed #human

No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#funding #instead #more #prisons #sentencing