The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral criminal should be locked up in jail. Since almost the only available system...

I hated high school. It was a prison.

The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Someone once told me a joke,” he said. “I’d like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.’ I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a...

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

When I pass the bar, you’ll be barred from bars but put behind them.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

You’re still in prison if you do nothing better in freedom.

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring’s crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all...

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy – a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground,...

I often find myself in a room full of strangers, and very often it’s a tough crowd. But I’m a master networker, so for me, prison isn’t such a big deal. A smile extends much...

Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don’t think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with...

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle...

Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed to be commonly understood. The award-winning documentary film Rape Culture made...

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

Who cut him?’ Sam liked saying things like ‘Who cut him?’ It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

Mr Moss’s courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

{…]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

The next morning he drove the stranger’s car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver’s license. He suddenly realized he had left his name...

Historically, the ‘deadline’ was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced...

I keep my valuable things locked up. Everybody does. Therefore, criminals must be valuable.

In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt...

I know from experience it’s very hard to get access to a prison to take pictures.

Don’t let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn’t be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be...

…visą pataisos įstaigų sistemą reikėtų tiesiai taip ir vadinti – nusikaltėlių ugdymo bazėmis. Pradinis lygis – nepilnamečių kolonijos, kur paauglys arba suluošinamas psichiškai visam gyvenimui, arba užsigrūdina, surambėja ir išeina puikiausią nusikalstamumo mokyklą prieš ateityje...

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t...

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

People put bars on their windows to keep themselves safe, and I say why not just commit a felony and go to prison? Plenty of bars there.

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you’re the fucking criminal.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Kau bangun benteng tuk kawal hatimu, dan kau tuduh mereka tak pedulikanmu.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

I heard this story once,” she said, “where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin’ stuff about the universe and everythin’ from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and...

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just — not the balancing of benefits.

I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble… and I’m too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven’t even booked Tommy the Face in...

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

I had a dream about you. We met where most lovers meet—in prison. You were a guard, and I was in solitary confinement. The politicians felt the bars protected society from me, but I felt...

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 a prison is a prison. The structure of authority that produces...

Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands while they took their last breath. It was the other side...

you do your own time in prison. You don’t do anyone else’s time for them.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn’t a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so...

Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation and experience is outside my narrow range. Despite the psychopath’s lack of conscience...