Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Yes. This was it. It had to be. He was setting her free of this prison she’d been locked in for weeks.… — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook,… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity. — Mazo de la Roche Copy Share Image
I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Nick pressed a finger onto the table. “Would you bust him out of prison?” “No,” Zane answered immediately. Nick sat back, eyebrows… — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
They sent me to the pen for five years for a crime that was never committed. I aint no bank robber but… — Mac Dre Copy Share Image
“Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-32 had a visitor.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't want to go to a foreign country and get lumped into that genre. I'm just looking at the bigger picture.… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch,… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I would make the case that the vast majority of prisoners leave prison and go back into society. We share that society… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“This too I know - and wise it were If each could know the same - That every prison that men build… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Smoke puffed from the open V of his shirt. And still the humming of the electricity went on and on, filling my… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together. — Westside Gunn Copy Share Image
I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how… — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
