Ashamed Quote by Janet Fitch

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it…

— Nellie Bly

Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save…

— Robert Burton

“Even if I had convict ancestry, I wouldn’t be ashamed of it. As far as I’m concerned, the real criminals back in those days…

— Cameron Trost

“Nearly the physical size of Los Angeles, Bukchang housed fifty thousand prisoners who were kept in by, among many other things, a four-meter-high fence.…

— David Baldacci

“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all of the…

— Ron Chernow

“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole…

— Arundhati Roy

Did you see all that? Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but…

— Matt Martin

“Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands…

— Lisa R. Cohen

The mortician interviewing the corpses

— Eugene McCarthy

“You are here to pay a debt of blood and pain, sir.” Domn answered. “You both are here for your crimes against children, and…

— Cedric Nye

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

— Elie Wiesel

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they…

— Kathy Griffin