“A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
After I get dolled up and lay down some records and my voice is out, I want to get away and get… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“What more proof do you need to illustrate how America is the land of the free than the fact that the US… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your… — Irina Ratushinskaya Copy Share Image
I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a… — Grizz Chapman Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary increase in prison admissions due to parole and probation violations is due almost entirely to the War on Drugs. With… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
“I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.” — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I witnessed other inmates' time run out, and I'd be lying if I said you don't ask yourself, 'Wow, is that going… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I had an inkling that I was going to prison before I actually did, because I'd witnessed my father and my elders… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
“I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
![“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you…” quote by Irina Ratushinskaya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/irina-ratushinskaya-71158_able_all-this-soviet-labor-camp-for-political_1072105.jpg)
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