Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be… — James Fox Copy Share Image
I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a… — Gayle K. Horii Copy Share Image
I think that there are times when Puertoricans think, "Oh, we are blessed with the relationship with the U.S." But the end… — Oscar Lopez Rivera Copy Share Image
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Yes, they manage to sound very reasonable to themselves as they talk of deterring others from crime; but the act of putting… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“The hours I would spend in the prison visiting room were among the most comforting of my life. They sped by, the… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned… — Jennifer Finney Boylan Copy Share Image
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was not aware of a ton of the stuff that was being said about me out in the world since I… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water.… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation… — David Von Drehle Copy Share Image
“He wants to tell her that he is not hopeless, that he is not filled with hatred or violence, that he is… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Matthias was in the dark. And it wasn’t the kind of dark that came with a room that didn’t have any lights… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“The public expects sentences to be punitive but also rehabilitative; however, what we expect and what we get from our prisons are… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“I can’t stand this, Pigeon. I feel like I’m going crazy.” I threw out my hands and let them hit my thighs.… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to look at a guy's face and say I will kill you if I have to. You've… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
“She’s got us, she’s got us all. Caverna. She doesn’t want to let us go. Do you know what she’s like? A… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The spirit of Burzum never changed, but my ability to make music changed dramatically when I was imprisoned. It is more or… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I went through what I was going through in prison, one of the things that was very distracting was the issue… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
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