“Hang out in front of a school on a Friday after class has been dismissed. Some notion. I wonder if any inmates… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Nelles explained that its inmates “could be divided into three groups”: “those who are feeble-minded,” those “of sound mind whose delinquency is… — Harold Schechter Copy Share Image
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons,… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment… We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we… — José Saramago Copy Share Image