Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Is It Bad That When They Say More People In The United States Go To Jail More Than Like 4 Or 5… — Author Name Copy Share Image
I felt that in the television there was safety, there was a place where you could be entirely yourself and be celebrated… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I genuinely believe that being on death row for 22 years ultimately saved my life. It was the greatest adventure of my… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time,… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I came up with the idea when I was in prison,” Kyle said, in response to their question. “Four months behind bars… — Julie James Copy Share Image
If you've seen the 'Shawshank Redemption' and if you think Morgan Freeman's character should have died in prison, vote for the other… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
See honey.. there's a place called heaven and a place called hell A place called prison and a place called jail And… — Eminem Copy Share Image
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start… — James Brown Copy Share Image
Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly. "You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way.… — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person… — Amy J. Berg Copy Share Image
The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness.… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Somebody goes to a soup kitchen and serves the hungry, someone goes to a prison and tries to get people to turn… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
