Crime Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

“Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.”

— Scott Lynch

“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and…

— Howard Zinn

What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“rip the prisons open put the convicts on television”

— Norman Mailer

“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.”

— Paul W. Silver

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

“It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.”

— Major Jackson

“Prisons are about addictions. Most prisoners are casualties of their own habits. They have all created victims, some in cruel and callous ways, but…

— Stephen Reid

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

— Megan Whalen Turner