“There are an estimated 120,000 inmates in federal prisons who are grappling with being trapped behind bars, though they are not guilty… — Colin Warner Copy Share Image
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“Like the hostages, I can’t find any excuses for my jailers, even if some of them are rootless exiles. They change continuously… — Hanan Al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently… — Oliver B. Greene Copy Share Image
When young black men reach a certain age - whether or not there is incarceration in their families - they themselves are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Countries with big inequality gaps have big prison populations, have worse obesity rates, are less trusting, and have higher rates of violence.… — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
A friend of mine is chief of staff at a big prison in Georgia. Along with giving me a tour of the… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I spent a night in jail but honestly who could have known it's illegal to pee from a hotel balcony into the… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Have you fallen into the prison of dreams? Then you are very lucky; stay inside for a while, in normal prisons your… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“You have no chose but to assume it's your fault, that you're unlovable. And the feeling wraps around you until it becomes… — lisa kleypas Copy Share Image
Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
“Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If they let you out,” Kaltain said, both of them staring into the blackness of their prisons, “make sure that they’re punished… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“Two Sentinels stand over me, their eyes dark behind their masks. Both are twice my size and heartless, trying to drag me… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
“I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
