The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for… — Dan Benishek Copy Share Image
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about… — Roddy Ricch Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does.… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
“Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
We're living in an age where new technology offers gigantic upsides - artificial intelligence has the potential to diagnose cancer, catch serial… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“It’s a prison. It’s twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
“In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking...… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know… — Nicole Deese Copy Share Image
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“To change the imagined order, it should be replaced by an even more powerful order and that is why there is no… — Read trepreneur Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“By the end of the Clinton years, the United States had more than 2 million people in prison—a higher percentage of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external… — Yasmin Copy Share Image
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image