It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the…

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first,…

— Chelsea Manning

“Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.”

— Scott Lynch

“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and…

— Howard Zinn

What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“rip the prisons open put the convicts on television”

— Norman Mailer

“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.”

— Paul W. Silver

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

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

— Major Jackson

“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 what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

— Megan Whalen Turner

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

— Agatha Christie

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