Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the…

These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than one per…

— Peter Moskos

When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have…

— Maia Szalavitz

“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.”

— Major Jackson

“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”

— Gabor Maté

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

— Lord Caradon

“Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in…

— The Eagles

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

— Agatha Christie

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

“This is far from the norm in other countries—like Germany, for instance, which allows (and even encourages) prisoners to vote.”

— Michelle Alexander

“The prisoners stand on the other side, three of whom require their own cages. He hands out the Eucharist through a sort of mail…

— Kerry Weber

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for…

— Michelle Alexander

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no…

— Albert Camus

The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and…

— Sekou Odinga

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

— Dominic Raab