People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma.… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Being an engineer is to live in a mean, bare prison cell and regard yourself the sovereign of limitless space... for each… — John DeLorean Copy Share Image
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We keep a woman in prison for decade after decade at a cost of $60,000 a year, and then give them $200… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges,… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Well, there's a bright side to this for Ken Lay. You know, throughout the years Ken Lay has been a big campaign… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over,… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“A prison wall was round us both, Two outcast men we were: The world had thrust us from its heart, And God… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“This is what I knew: I was trapped in my body, in that bed, at that moment. But even as I looked… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty… — James DeGale Copy Share Image
Many other countries have tried this and getting businesses to work in partnership in prisons, in prison and with prison labour, and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
“I know that,” he said. “But it isn’t just a piece of paper that makes a man. And it isn’t just prison… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration,… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people. — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
