“How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn’t believe a world exists outside the prison walls?” — Skye Jethani Copy Share Image
For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination. — Jordi Cuixart Copy Share Image
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal. — Ras Kass 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
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person… — Amy J. Berg Copy Share Image
“Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly. "You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way.… — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
See honey.. there's a place called heaven and a place called hell A place called prison and a place called jail And… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled… — Sadat X Copy Share Image
In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity,… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash… — Brian Banks Copy Share Image
For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
Akbar Ganji was in prison for six years, and that was it...for six years, and it was finished. Of course the Iranian… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
