To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy. — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
It was very cold in jail. But inmates were good. They shared their stories with me. — Payal Rohatgi Copy Share Image
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever. — Anthony Gregory 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 was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Xhex: John, she said softty. He paused and looked over his shoulder toward the bed. I love you.” His handsome face tightened… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into… — Dave Madden Copy Share Image
There's a lot of forces opposed to legalization marijuana, so I don't want to put the cart before the horse. It's looking… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use… — Jim Stockdale Copy Share Image
“All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors — Eoin MacNeill Copy Share Image
“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating. — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“it was for my desire to fit into my skinny jeans. I was the warden in my own prison. That” — Danielle Stewart Copy Share Image
I wrote, exercised, ate healthy, and responded to life in prison very well. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“It did not feel like home. It felt like a place that had been built to be paradise, but had become a… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
