If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read. — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
“They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Learn to be content with yourself, if you do not do that, you will live as if you are in a prison… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. — Clarence Darrow 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
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Work was always necessary to survive. Then I decided the goal should be to survive without working. But now I have much… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The regime in too many prisons is one of idleness, and locking up someone from such a background in idleness virtually guarantees… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I was driving to school at Reseda High School - I was a junior, and it was early 1956. I had a… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding… — Lisa R. Cohen Copy Share Image
“The prison was built on 10.6 acres and was approximately 1,000 feet wide and nearly 780 feet wide. The walls of the… — Charles River Editors 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
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“It’s like a prison. Okay, it is a prison. There’s the problem right there.” — Gennifer Choldenko Copy Share Image
I don't need your prison I don't need your pain. I don't need your decision So what should I do? — Dope Copy Share Image
I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down. — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
