Correctional Facilities Quotes

“In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“The degree of civilization in a society can
be judged by entering its prisons.”
This statement, or similar expressions, have been attributed to great thinkers and leaders such as: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mahatma Ghandi, Sir Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.”
― Kevin West, Slam!: A Death in Custody

“I can’t believe the way they’re building prisons. Then they fill ‘em up with damn fools on nickel-and-dime drug cases. They make maniacs of ‘em up there, and then turn them loose on the public. It’s like they were growin’ maniacs in hothouses.”
― Edward Bunker, Dog Eat Dog