Quote by Dostoieffsky

“The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn’t even know he’s in prison.”

— Pittacus Lore

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman

“I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand,but when you've had to play chess twice a day with a…

— Hugh Laurie

“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to restraints of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

“We are all prisoners of our past. It shapes and defines us and can no more be forgotten than changed.”

— Leonard Goldberg

“Prison is, you don’t judge people, you accept them. If they get out of line you knock them out. When in doubt, you punch…

— Marlin Marynick

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

“9. Prisoners must genuinely repent of their errors. Anyone who does not acknowledge his sins and instead denies them or carries a deviant opinion…

— Blaine Harden

“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could…

— Jeff Wheeler

“He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.”

— Ogden Nash

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he…

— Alexandre Dumas