Alternatives Quote by Joseph Brodsky

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

“There is no time in prison, unless you create it for yourself. People on the outside seem to believe time passes slowly in prison,…

— Damien Echols

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until…

— Ava DuVernay

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

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

— Suki Kim

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

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the…

— Charlie Shrem

You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually, it starts…

— Michael Sorrentino

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

— Hill Harper

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

— Elizabeth Flock