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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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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.
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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.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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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.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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.
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Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
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Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
Schneier, Bruce (2005)
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