“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
On Wednesday, a 55 year-old inmate escaped from Rikers Island after he convinced guards that he was a lawyer. Guards probably should've… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Offenders who commit crime in prison have a disruptive and often devastating impact on the prospects of those who are trying to… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things… — John Milton Copy Share Image
If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Every hardship is like being in prison. People feel imprisoned by ill-health, marital discord, financial insecurity, family disputes and other problems. To… — Babar Ahmad Copy Share Image
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
And as long as we believe what we believe - until that is questioned - there's no progress as a human race.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice.… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read… — Mikis Theodorakis 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
When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching… — Dean Martin Copy Share Image
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time.… — John Starks Copy Share Image
Even though wrestling is getting more popular - wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the… — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“He’s a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you’re going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
