Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, aiming at a more effective penal system.
Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or reform:
“Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce great poetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)