America Quote by Malcolm X

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

— Joseph Brodsky

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

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes…

— Carl Hart

“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

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to…

— Catharine MacKinnon

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

— Ava DuVernay

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

“In 2008, one in a hundred American adults was behind bars. Just what manner of people does our prison policy reveal us to be?”

— David Cay Johnston

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

— Piper Kerman

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

— Piper Kerman

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

— Varg Vikernes

What they say about being in prison is true. That moment when the door closes, time stands still.

— Joey Barton