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I know prisons from the inside.
The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.
More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.
It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.
If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.
There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.
My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.
I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
The first visit I made to Australia was in 1996 when I was the prisons' minister and was looking at other countries' penal systems.
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.
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.
Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the world.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.
Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.
In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.