Quotes About Incarceration

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

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

Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces [in 1968]. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

The thousands of black bodies incarcerated on death row are one legacy of lynching. The highest rates of execution in the United States can be correlated with those states where lynching was most prevalent. America's practice of lynching morphs rather than dies.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

There is a tremendous amount of farting in prison.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars.

We have over 500 000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South African brothers and Spanish brothers and to my brothers in South Vietnam, all in their prison camps: You are in the free world!