I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's… — DeAndre Yedlin Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
After five years in prison, five years on parole, and a total of 10 years of being in hell, I can look… — Brian Banks Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson 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've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For me, it was the Army or prison. I wanted to make something of myself. The Army gave me that determination, the… — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door. — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I… — Diane Farr Copy Share Image
