Am Quote by Tahar Rahim

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail…

— David Lidington

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

— Ava DuVernay

How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we…

— James Forman, Jr

Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.…

— W. Kamau Bell

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the…

— Barbara Deming

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has…

— Angela Davis

Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the…

— Chelsea Manning

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

— Gerald Stern

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

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more…

— Joseph Brodsky

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

— Powers Boothe