“This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.” — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I have kept no secret about my time growing up in Miami, U.S.A., and landing in trouble and going to prison for… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
A lot of the best of what's come from working on 'Orange Is the New Black' is working with the Women's Prison… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to meet Jesus must meet him in places where brothers and sisters of Jesus are hungry, thirsty, naked, unwanted, sick… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for… — Jack Carroll Copy Share Image
I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Suspended NFL star Michael Vick told a bankruptcy court on Friday that his time in prison has given him a chance to… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison. — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house. — William H. Coles Copy Share Image
“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.” — Dwight E. Abbott Copy Share Image
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. — David Foster Copy Share Image
“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about 'Orange' is I think we bring to light a lot of topics that, particularly in… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes… — Sadat X Copy Share Image
I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
For those interested in learning more about corporations and private individuals profiting from the caging of human beings, I highly recommend the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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