One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It… — Adrien Broner Copy Share Image
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It is said that real human nature reveals itself under extreme conditions. As I starved in prison, I realizes that eating was… — Andy Raskin Copy Share Image
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
“Such was the Pact. Born behind bars, Mission had been allowed free while his mother had been sent outside to clean.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“Adrian. He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison. And he was also the reason I was here… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
“They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Golden bars make no less a prison than a coffin on a hill. And in caged reformation, one wanders aimless still. The… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I've never been to prison. I've been to jail but never prison. I don't like being in holding tanks. I don't like… — Xzibit Copy Share Image
It was easy to get wrapped up in some of the negative stuff, but obviously I chose not to. I didn't want… — Jermain Defoe Copy Share Image
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Fuck you, angel. Fuck you and all God's little prison bitches. He slips you some cigarettes and a con job smile and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Yes. This was it. It had to be. He was setting her free of this prison she’d been locked in for weeks.… — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“EARLY MORNING IN THE yard at the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa, prisoners lounging about, doing lazy time, and here comes John Wayne… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
We're our own prison. To be free is to be free, do not tie yourself down in illusions that would extend the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books,… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right… — Craig Charles Copy Share Image
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison?… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Sevran was a very, very difficult city. There was no money. I lived there with my family and it wasn't easy to… — Serge Aurier Copy Share Image
What Martin Shkreli will end up if he does wind up going to prison. I think that's I think what shocks a… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
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