“The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I don’t want to release the prisoners—I want to lease them. If… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Being an engineer is to live in a mean, bare prison cell and regard yourself the sovereign of limitless space... for each… — John DeLorean Copy Share Image
“A prison wall was round us both, Two outcast men we were: The world had thrust us from its heart, And God… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going… — Adam Hills Copy Share Image
“The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls -… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
“Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“Eli bought the flat-screen television and sectional couch for Olivia, his mother, after his stint in prison. There’s a throw rug on… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
“But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma.… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“Pardon me, you ... love life? You who exclaim and sing over and over and dance it too: "i love you, life!… — Aleksander Solženitsyn Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for… — Jack Carroll Copy Share Image
“I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.” — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
“I'm in prison because I'm a free man, because I found it necessary to exercise my freedom, because I accepted this necessity.” — Jorge Semprún Copy Share Image
