I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Have you fallen into the prison of dreams? Then you are very lucky; stay inside for a while, in normal prisons your… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I spent a night in jail but honestly who could have known it's illegal to pee from a hotel balcony into the… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty… — Colin Warner Copy Share Image
“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
If we put everyone on life in prison (no parole), they would be full and overcrowded. They already are. Some prisoners may… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Khodorkovsky is richest man. And he lost everything when Putin arrested him and took his company away, and essentially took his company… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. ... And thus fled… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I understood law enforcement in such a way that I was able to get a law enforcement officer, a veteran, to actually… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant Copy Share Image
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
There's not a man in there who doesn't regret it. You're in there. You're on your own. Everyone is at their lowest… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
