When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who… — Norris Church Mailer Copy Share Image
The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
We are stuck in a cycle of people serving time for committed crimes, leaving prison, committing new crimes, and returning to serve… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I have to be that way in a courtroom. I typically have people's lives literally in my hands and they're relying on… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
“(At PDS, we often lamented that there were never waiting lists for prison—just for alternatives to prison.) But” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
“Some "free" people are more imprisoned than those that are locked away. Trapped in narrow mindsets, they carry their mental prison with… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I was going to prison for the rest of my life and that there was nothing that… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
“IN ALL THE YEARS I’ve spent here at Salton Sea State Penitentiary, I swear I never met a scarier man than Big… — Joshua Graham Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Over months of being with him, my prison had become my sanctuary, and now that I was free, the world was my… — Kitty Thomas Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people. — David Steward Copy Share Image
“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship… — William Morris Copy Share Image
