Quotes About Incarceration

Judges' rulings on particular cases of such death row confinement have declared it cruel and unusual, a form of torture, as have international jurists.

I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

Gun Court lockup. He would still be there if Daddy didn't

Stalag Rhythm

In South Dakota about 6 percent of the population are Indians, but we account for 43 percent of arrests and 50 percent of all convictions.

Whites break the law too, but it is always the poor and the nonwhites who actually do the time in penitentiaries.

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

The prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

that the prison wasn´t the place, but the perspective.

That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either on parole or in jail today (around 6 million total) than there ever were at any time in Stalin's gulags. For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak. See if this syllogism works, then. Poverty goes up; Crime goes down; Prison population doubles.

For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

one of the top selections for its steady growth and defensive nature of its business. Economies may ebb and flow, but the number of incarcerated Americans is steadily growing according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

There will be no rack, no stoning, no scorpion-filled sand pit, no bucket of fire ants. Just a sanitary plea agreement and a single blow of the gavel, and "Casino Jack" Abramoff will disappear for a few years of weight lifting and Talmudic study.

Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either on parole or in jail today (around 6 million total) than there ever were at any time in Stalin's gulags. For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

To insure a steady stream of new prisoners, while doing little if anything to boost public safety, private prison companies over the last decade spent over $45 million lobbying law makers.

Further, more African Americans today are under criminal justice supervision—either in prison, on parole or probation—than were enslaved 10 years before the Civil War (Alexander 2012

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.

he understands the penitentiary. It is the expectations and values of the world outside of prison that he has trouble comprehending.

Most incarcerated serial killers have admitted that as soon as they are released they will murder again, and many have done so. It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer and he may be active for many years before he is arrested.

Hablen, sigan hablando —dijo Carvajal después de un largo silencio—; sigan hablando! —¡Hablemos de la libertad! —murmuró el estudiante. —¡Vaya una ocurrencia! —se le interpuso el sacristán—; ¡hablar de la libertad en la cárcel! —Y los enfermos ¿no hablan de la salud en el hospital?...

The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

Mindless punishment and super-incarceration have been societal disasters: locking away tens of thousands of young people in hyper-violent prisons, dominated by institutionalized race wars, without any semblance of education, rehabilitation or hope. The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.