Basic Quote by Okky Madasari

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as…

— Heather Mac Donald

I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“You are only able really to refuse and flee, though, when you recognize your power. Those living under the weight of a security regime…

— Michael Hardt

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a prison is…

— Gayle K. Horii

“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell ’s 1984 and the only difference between our…

— Paul Joseph Watson

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

— Mary Archer

I believe we are nearing a time when a combination of technology and radical thinking will make it possible for much more intensive and…

— David Gauke

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

— Yael Stone

“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott