Control Quote by Nelson Mandela

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

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

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get…

— Jack Abramoff

“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch your spouse,…

— Damien Echols

“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

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

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

Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first,…

— Chelsea Manning

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds…

— William Powell

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

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a…

— Antony Starr