Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Even though wrestling is getting more popular - wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the… — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time.… — John Starks Copy Share Image
You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Is it as bad out there as they say it is?” he asked. “From my six-inch window, it looks like we got… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing. — Fred Korematsu Copy Share Image
“Epictetus: "The judgment seat and a prison is each a place, the one high, the other low; but the attitude of your… — James B. Stockdale Copy Share Image
“He’s a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you’re going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“If I spent ten years in prison, I’d probably come to value the small things in life. Things like good food, a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked… — Cynthia Payne Copy Share Image
“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
“IN OUR CELLS They keep us in our cells For a long time... And, if we get out, We lug them with… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
Friends will bail you out of jail and say I can't believe you did that. True friends will be sitting beside you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
