Beneath the surface Quote by Dwight E. Abbott

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.”

— Bryant McGill

“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a prison is…

— Gayle K. Horii

“On the inner side of the aquarium of reality, beliefs define the area of the prison.”

— Robert Neil Fleischer

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only…

— Piper Kerman

“At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have to put…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Ruthy Alon

“The illusion of freedom is just another sort of prison-”

— Lisa Mantchev

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

“Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...”

— Arthur Koestler

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau