Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease. — Jack Levin Copy Share Image
Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
“Um, h-h-hi,” Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes like blue shards of glass.” — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“I wake up at cock crow and I know where I am. I'm in the parlour. I'm in the scullery. I'm in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
