My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they're also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers,… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
“I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“...our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends. — David Gauke Copy Share Image
In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home. — Walter Farrell Copy Share Image
“My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start, So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.” — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
On Wednesday, a 55 year-old inmate escaped from Rikers Island after he convinced guards that he was a lawyer. Guards probably should've… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Offenders who commit crime in prison have a disruptive and often devastating impact on the prospects of those who are trying to… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
