California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance?… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
You get taken in, and they give you a jumpsuit, which are a lot more comfortable than you'd think. It depends on… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
“There is not a single penal institution or reformatory in the United States where men are not tortured “to be made good,”… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a… — Sherman Austin Copy Share Image
Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem. — Said Seyam Copy Share Image
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“If I spent ten years in prison, I’d probably come to value the small things in life. Things like good food, a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked… — Cynthia Payne Copy Share Image
The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
I went to this rubbish school. I asked the careers master what he thought that I was going to do with my… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
Friends will bail you out of jail and say I can't believe you did that. True friends will be sitting beside you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance to go outside. I can look at the mud, or I can look at the stars. I am the one who decides which way to look. That is true for every one of us.” quote by Gary Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/907/gary-chapman-1325_attitude_one-reality-is-that-i-am-responsible-for_239942.jpg)
