Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
When two of every three people emerging from jail are rearrested and return to prison, it is clear our criminal justice system… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night. While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I wish you could go back twenty years when the world was in your fist And really when I was in prison… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Here was a temporary solution. Parole would get Mofokeng and Mokoena out of jail as quickly as possible. Other details could be… — Jeremy Gordin Copy Share Image
“Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days,… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good… — Danny Miller Copy Share Image
Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
“exchange of “hostages” unjustly held in Western prisons. The motive changes according to circumstance. Sometimes the unlucky” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a… — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
He likes to eat hardy, party. Be like John Gotti, and drive a Maserati. Rough in the ghetto, but in jail he's… — Kool G Rap Copy Share Image
I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a… — Tim Donaghy Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had… — Marko Arnautovic Copy Share Image
Living among society's outcasts and experiencing the brutality of America's prison system did more to set (or confirm) the direction of my… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I could try to dematerialize and find my way back, but knowing my luck, I’d end up in a terrorist training camp.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will… — Coolio Copy Share Image
