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I’m a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It’s horrible.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

I’ve worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I’ve worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

I’ve probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

I’ve worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn’t have a direction.