“We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.” WantYearsThreeNextCommunityFourProgramPrisonAlternativesFour YearsEntryOffendersRe Entry Author:Janet Reno
“we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.” IfsAmericaProgramPrisonReachingHousingPublic Housing Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation
“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.” JobsStudyDevelopmentDrugSkillsTrainingProgramAbusePrisonMental HealthTreatmentParticipationDrug AbuseInmatesJob TrainingSkills DevelopmentRecidivismVocational TrainingVocational Education Author:Bobby Scott
“At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban area not far from the well-known Attica State Prison. Then I would take the school bus which was a very short distance away, where I was involved with a much larger community.” WellsEndsStatesSchoolMovingParentCommunityKnownInvolvedHigh SchoolAreasProgramMovedDistancePrisonBusWell KnownSchool Bus Author:Paul Smith
“We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system.” WantNeedsStatesChanceProgramPrisonGladSecond ChancePrivate Prisons Author:Hillary Clinton
“I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow!” PeopleBookUsedOrderHalfGraceInvolvedActivityProgramPrisonJailFarmsCowsClosingHerdsHeirloomsAliases Author:Margaret Atwood
“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.” PeopleWorldWarHappensThreeNamesCitiesMillionsEternalCreatingRacismProgramSlaveryPrisonSouthKillingDebtAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThis DayBitternessDestroyingQuartersWorld War IiFlagsWorld War IThreatenedHostilityConfederateBrewingConfederate Flag Author:David Swanson