Angry Quote by Peter McWilliams

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

“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen,…

— Piper Kerman

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

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

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

— Joseph Brodsky

“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

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

I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard…

— Michelle Alexander

The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't…

— Joseph Brodsky

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time…

— Gregory David Roberts

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