In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.

Sentencing enhancements won’t get police to investigate crimes they don’t take seriously to begin with. They won’t stop police from harassing trans women on the street because they assume all trans women are sex workers....

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who’s served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated...

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I’d never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.

Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Should I, too, prefer the title of ‘non-Jewish Jew’? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde...

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good...

I’ve been to the Big House. Not prison, but the Biltmore Estate.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what...

Put ’em who threaten possessions and power together with ’em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who’re touched, put ’em in asylums. Pack off old ones to ‘senior communities,’ nursing homes. Our...

Don’t be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell.

After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his...

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

Please,” Kendra said. “Think of all the lives that will be destroyed.””I have,” Mark said. “Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I’m protecting...

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we’re told, and back then I was.

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

Think of the prince, protector of the palace. Right now he prays for you to live.

Somewhere in the distance I hear the bucket clatter to the floor. I plunge the knife into his head, again and again. His arms lash out blindly, getting in the way. Blood mixes with water...

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Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it...

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn’t have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

As eternal beings, we shouldn’t let our time spent trapped in the temporal prisons we call our bodies distract us from the fact that love is forever. Love now and love later, because the two...

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come...

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming that I can no longer stand or even imagine freedom, life...

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels...

Don’t forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the...

Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors...

You will love me or I will sentence you to life in prison.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

I want to release my soul from its prison cell, to silence the guards who tell me that I am not capable of living. Every voice that ever told me that I cannot achieve has,...

What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it.

Prison is like high school with knives.

The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The...

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let’s invest in monkey bars.

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

I’d kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don’t have any friends.

Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the name of fighting crime. Prison places cost the US taxpayer more...

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.