This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock… — Steven Donziger Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground.… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And… — William James Copy Share Image
We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.”… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush,… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
“Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
You wake up one day and you realize that all these years have gone by and I have this mortgage and I… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly,… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
I got caught back up in the underworld because the upperworld really doesn't have a place for people with criminal histories. — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
For me, it was the Army or prison. I wanted to make something of myself. The Army gave me that determination, the… — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful,… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining… — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do,… — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only… — Nigel Brennan Copy Share Image
