Crime Quote by Gerald Stern

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.…

— Peter McWilliams

Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think…

— Angela Davis

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,…

— Joseph Brodsky

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

— John Grisham

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning…

— Clint Smith

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as…

— Heather Mac Donald

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

— Wentworth Miller

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

— Anonymous

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

— Joseph Brodsky

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

— Lisa Bonet

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time…

— Gregory David Roberts