“But instead of feeling safe and secure behind their armed walls they found themselves trapped in the prison they had built with… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send… — Barrett Brown Copy Share Image
My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“The look on his face told me he'd seen too many prison-themed pornos to take the threat to my safety seriously.” — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
If we put everyone on life in prison (no parole), they would be full and overcrowded. They already are. Some prisoners may… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“Some people say he engineered his own arrest to gain an insight into modern methods of policing for a thriller he had… — Graham Spaid Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“Because Day chose to walk in the light.” I turn my back on him for the last time. The door opens; the… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“304. When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other -… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Each night within his prison cell, he looks out through the bars. He reads the letters that she wrote. One day he'll… — Nightwish Copy Share Image
“As I lay in prison, Sam, I tried to remember the Brandywine, and Woody End, and The Water running through the mill… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison —… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
I think most of us are far removed from what goes on in our jails and the system. When I started working… — Diana Penty Copy Share Image
Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago. — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
“The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong… — Tobin T. Buhk Copy Share Image
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
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