Quotes About Incarceration

This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

En l'absence de grands conflits armés, l'incarcération de masse constitue le programme social le plus assidûment appliqué par les gouvernements de notre époque.

Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.

We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos.

you can only know a country when you have seen its prisons.

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

I got over 20 people out of prison, some with life sentences and others based on getting their sentences reduced.

Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth.

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

My brothers kept me relevant. They got my back 100%. After all the times I've been incarcerated, they've always had my back.

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

What really broke it down was I had my son while I was locked up, so that really affected me. I can't really have this, knowing my father was locked up when I was small. So that really out of everything - through the fame, the money, everything - that really put the toll on me: 'Oh yeah, I gotta change.'

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

I am examining the inaccurate claiming of "abuse" as a substitute for problem-solving. I make plain how this deflection of responsibility produces unnecessary separation and perpetuates anxiety while producing cruelty, shunning, undeserved punishment, incarceration, and occupation.

You have brought your own ideas with you into the gaol,' Miss Haxby said, after a moment. 'But our ways at Millbank—as you can see—are rather narrow ones.

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.