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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.

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.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

I know prisons from the inside.

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.

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

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

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.