Susan Burton Quotes
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When you get locked up, you get locked out.
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We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.
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One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.
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Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.
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Insulin is a crisis medication.
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Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
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We continue to work on policy to end discrimination against people with criminal records.
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After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.