I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for… — Jack Carroll Copy Share Image
A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start… — James Brown Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“I stared out the window, at the whitecapped mountains in the distance. It was strange, looking at them from the other side.… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison,… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to… — Eskinder Nega 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
I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person… — Amy J. Berg Copy Share Image
“Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly. "You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way.… — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
See honey.. there's a place called heaven and a place called hell A place called prison and a place called jail And… — Eminem Copy Share Image
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people. — David Steward Copy Share Image
