There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate. — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
“The vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Association bring you into the larger world of other people and things. Not having that is a kind of prison, a prison… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world… — Frank Morgan Copy Share Image
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about a country by its prisons. In hippy-dippy Socialist Sweden, rapists and murders (all three of them)… — Maureen Klovers Copy Share Image
I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone… — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
“But when a man has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The hearing was adjourned. For a few brief moments, as I left the Law Courts on my way to the van, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Prisoners being allowed outside, only to return freely. But that was where their families were, and besides, where else” — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression. — Maria Alyokhina Copy Share Image
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“bodies becoming like prisons with the person stuck inside. Screaming, or not screaming, but staring at you like you should do something.” — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Being nice to someone you'd rather shank isn't being fake... it's sucking it up, acting like an adult, and avoiding prison — Rose Etheridge Copy Share Image
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris Copy Share Image
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I don't think I understood the full extent of the trauma experienced by people who churn through America's prisons until I began… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
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