Quotes About Incarceration

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

I got mail from a prison once.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.

I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

It was hard to play the drums at all when I got out of prison.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.