Henry Giroux Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.

  Henry Giroux

  Home, Loss, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Past, Ethos

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from homeless shelters and bad schools to bulging detention centers and prisons.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Play, Roles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And if we take that index as a measure of the United States, it's utterly failing. You have young people basically who - in schools that are increasingly modeled after prisons. You have their behavior being increasingly criminalized. And one of the most atrocious of all acts, you have the rise of debtors' prisons for children.

  Henry Giroux

  Children, School, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, there is also the emergence of a punishing state, a governing through crime youth complex, and the emergence of the school-to-prison pipeline as the new face of Jim Crow.

  Henry Giroux

  Children, School, Crow

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something that I haven't seen for a long time. And that is, they're linking issues together. You can't talk about police violence without talking about the militarization of society in general. You can't talk about the assault on public education unless you talk about the way in which capitalism defunds all public goods. You can't talk about the prison system without talking about widespread racism. You can't do that. They're making those connections.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

  Henry Giroux

  School, White, Minorities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see it in California where more prisons are being built than colleges. It goes on and on. We see it in a trillion-dollar war budget, politics becoming an extension of war rather than vice versa. This violence is like a fog. It covers everything.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, War, School

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Opportunity, Pipeline

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Numbers, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Taken, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Cities, Black

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. And the question becomes, how is finance capital, how does the 1 percent now resort to governing? And they govern basically through a form of lawlessness and what I call the punishing state, in which we've had a punishment creep, and now it moves from the prison to almost every institution in society, from airports to schools to social services.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, School, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Culture, Prison

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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