Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the… — Achmat Dangor Copy Share Image
I'm the first artist of any kind, good or bad, that was ever prosecuted by the Federal Government. Thirdly, they used the… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I have spent more than 20 years in prison, then on one night I decided to surrender by signing all the terms… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“This was 1941 and I'd been in prison eleven years. I was thirty-five. I'd spent the best years of my life either… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My… — Mary Beth Whitehead Copy Share Image
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“He was about to cross a point of no return. The place separating him from the imaginary line in the sand. The… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you… — Michelle Alexander 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
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually,… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“Ako nisam kriv, onda su pogriješili, zatvorili su nedužna čovjeka. Ako me puste, priznaće svoju grešku, a to nije ni lako ni… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Non-custodial sentences are certainly something to look at, more support in the community rather than within prisons is something we have to… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The greatest mystery was not that we have been flung at random among the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of… — Maurice Friedman Copy Share Image
I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The drug war is a total scam, prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one, but they spend billions/year… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“When rehabilitation works, there is no question that it is the best and most productive use of the correctional system. It stands… — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Oh what a good time I had in prison!" he exclaimed afterward. It had almost been like being back in Siberia again.… — Geir Kjetsaa Copy Share Image
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