Sunday, January 30, 2005

Quotes

"In Texas, students in a Sundayschool class reportedly got on their knees and prayed that a new prison would open in their Neighbourhood"

"Prisons don't pollute, they don't go out of business and they don't get downsized"

"Tussen 1980 en 1998 groeide de gevangenis populatie in de V.S. van 329.821 tot 1.302.019 inmates, een groei van bijna 400%..."


Uit: Gregory Hooks, et. al., “The Prison Industry: Carceral Expansion and Employment in U.S. Counties, 1969-1994,” 85 (1) Social Science Quarterly 37 (March 2004), pp. 37-39, 54