Aim Quote by Hisham Matar

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

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of…

— P.W. Thirion

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

— Malcolm X

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going…

— Nelson Mandela

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being…

— Lee Tergesen

We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty.…

— L. Frank Baum

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the…

— Dorothy Day

“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

“The American prisoner's greatest obstacle to achieving something of importance is a lack of communication with the outside world. When prison administrators manage to…

— Christopher Zoukis

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is…

— Aldous Huxley

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid