Susan Burton : (5)

" Everyone needs a place to live. Everyone needs a place to come home to every night. I don’t understand why our society, our government, can think that you can lock a person away for months or years… and then release them back after they pay their debt without any support and expect it to be okay. " - Susan Burton

" Insulin is a crisis medication. " - Susan Burton

" I knew I wasn’t born to be caged and chained up. " - Susan Burton

" In prison, you’re issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you’re issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them. " - Susan Burton

" Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should’ve been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child. " - Susan Burton