“Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion” — william blake Copy Share Image
'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self. — Pasquier Quesnel Copy Share Image
We buried ourselves under the jail. Without shovels, and dirt under our nails. — Jean Grae Copy Share Image
Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
My early memories are full of fear - of going to school crying, where food was very similar to prison food. — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
After I get dolled up and lay down some records and my voice is out, I want to get away and get… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
“A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi... shortly after he was released from… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Sentencing enhancements won't get police to investigate crimes they don't take seriously to begin with. They won't stop police from harassing trans… — Kay Whitlock Copy Share Image
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
Give them bible when they are young not when they are in prison. - adaeze don — Adaeze Don Copy Share Image
This is my last cry Is this the only way? This is my own prison Im frozen in time, in time, in… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“...those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air.” — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“Perfection is an awful prison, which shackles the soul and chains the spirit in shame and despair.” — David Foster Copy Share Image
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison. — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no-one can ever take from you, and that is your… — Babar Ahmad Copy Share Image
The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
