Prison Quotes

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There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to… — Ice Cube
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigâ€”big money, big businesses selling weedâ€”after 40 years of impoverished black… — Michel'le
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. — Wentworth Miller
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes… — Wentworth Miller
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. — Mary Archer
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do… — Lani Guinier
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in every sense of… — Tex Watson
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky â€” a friend of mine created a job for me at his… — Piper Kerman
No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage… — James E. Talmage
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured… — Angela Davis
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourÂ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of… — Angela Davis
We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other… — Charles Manson
Donâ€™t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee
Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison. — Charles Dickens
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a… — Max Horkheimer
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Michel Foucault
What makes Bush different from Hitler? He commits crimes in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons. With all these crimes, they still behave like bullying claimants.… — Ali Khamenei
The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars — Tariq Ramadan
Iâ€™m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling… — Rand Paul

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