Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles? — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
