We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“And I must smile and dance with this man, and say nothing, for he holds the key to the prison my life… — Victoria Lamb Copy Share Image
I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks. — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life. — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela 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
I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you… — Michelle Alexander 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
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
“There is not a single penal institution or reformatory in the United States where men are not tortured “to be made good,”… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter… — Susan May Copy Share Image
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“No zek had the right to stay one second in his workroom without the supervision of a free employee because prudence dictated… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Foreword By Jonathan Aitken IN IT is one of the best books on prison life I have read. Jonathan Robinson writes with… — Jonathan Robinson Copy Share Image
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“There is no time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and… — P.W. Thirion Copy Share Image
I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Another simile is that of the man who was born and raised in a prison and who has never set foot outside.… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end. I observed that while Dumas… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek 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
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
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
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
“When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
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