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Quotes About Incarceration

You're just an object locked up in the house.
~ Souad
More inmates died of suicide than the needle on death row in California.
~ Michael Connelly
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
~ Michael Crichton
They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
~ Michael Crichton
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Behind bars, everyone's an inmate. Everybody has their skeletons; everybody has their story.
~ Brian Banks
What are we going to do to make sure people get the skills they need if they are incarcerated so that when they are released to hit the ground running? And what are we all going to do to give people who've earned a second chance, a second chance?
~ Valerie Jarrett
I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.
~ Alicia Keys
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.
~ Michael K. Williams
Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!
~ Bram Stoker
We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
~ T. D. Jakes
Existen muchas clases de prisiones. Jarnauga
~ Tad Williams
That summer of 1928, Robert was also reading the 1922 novel The Enormous Room, an account by e. e. cummings of his four-month incarceration in a French wartime prison camp. He loved cummings' notion that a man stripped of all his possessions can nevertheless find personal freedom in the most spartan of surroundings. The story would take on a new meaning for him after 1954.
~ Kai Bird
was initially happy, then with the onset of consciousness unhappy, then with the advent of adolescence wretchedly miserable, and finally, in the last throws of my domestic incarceration, convinced I was born in the wrong place and had to escape at all cost. In other words, an ordinary childhood followed by an ordinary adolescence,
~ Kapka Kassabova
I was initially happy, then with the onset of consciousness unhappy, then with the advent of adolescence wretchedly miserable, and finally, in the last throws of my domestic incarceration, convinced I was born in the wrong place and had to escape at all cost. In other words, an ordinary childhood followed by an ordinary adolescence,
~ Kapka Kassabova
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
~ Paul Hawken
The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.
~ Ronnie Van Zant
I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.
~ Chen Guangcheng
Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.
~ Nate Dogg
Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.
~ Bernhard Goetz
The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.
~ Kevin Gates
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
~ Scott Weiland
My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.
~ Farrah Abraham