Quotes About Incarceration

From age 16 to 26, I literally became a man in prison so it was influential in shaping me.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

There's no reason to think a Guantanamo detainee is any more likely to escape from Supermax than any other federal prisoner.

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

My earliest memories are going into prisons. Going through metal detectors, getting searched by guards.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

I know prisons from the inside.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.

The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.

I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time.