“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
There's not a man in there who doesn't regret it. You're in there. You're on your own. Everyone is at their lowest… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He’s in cotton-wool, pampered and cosseted, surrounded with hot-house flowers and picture papers. He’s a prisoner in a gilded cage. I wonder… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief… — Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Copy Share Image
“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
“A prison chaplain in the West of England confessed he had given up one prisoner as hopeless, so stubborn was he against… — Francis Gay Copy Share Image
“There was a Japanese TV set in front of us. There were Japanese TV sets all over the prison. They were like… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I've been accused for a shootin. Which I know never do. Who dem in prison that willing dey. So I've got to… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
Most people, when they want to see their mothers, they can pick up the phone and dial it. I've got to go… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
“the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
'Paris, Texas' is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant Copy Share Image
Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I understood law enforcement in such a way that I was able to get a law enforcement officer, a veteran, to actually… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
“In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
