By braiding floss into a rope in 1994, a prison inmate…

“Yes, fear was the kind of prison where you made yourself the inmate and the jailer.”

— A.J. Sand

I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened…

— Fred Hampton

I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…

— Marcel Proust

“Inside its crumbling walls the house is riddled with bullet holes, and in its garden only the crimson dahlias still hold their heads high.…

— Shan Sa

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

— M. John Harrison

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons…

— Sally Yates

“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and…

— Patricia Dsouza

This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the…

— Rajneesh

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

— Patricia McConnell

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got…

— Wentworth Miller

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

— Tom Segev

Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

— David Cameron