Quotes About Prisoners

We all are the Prisoners of our Mind. Forget & Forgive to Claim your Freedom.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Mark's story of Jesus' last days . . . is an intensely political drama, filled with conspiratorial backroom deals and covert action, judicial manipulation and prisoner exchange, torture and summary execution . . . And we do well not to forget that this very narrative of arrest, trial and torture is still lived out by countless political prisoners around the world today. Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man

E]very action taken by us, no matter how simple or ridiculous, is regulated under some institutional rule or policy. . . . This is done so we will become pliant and submit to every whimsical command of guards, staff and administrators no matter how perverted or criminal-directed. … This puts the fear of God into the hearts of those prisoners out in the general population.

Secondly, what is overlooked by the rhetoric of "mostly blacks and Hispanics" are those prisoners who are Arab-American, A/AAPI, or American Indian. Even

All prisoners, as sexual beings and as bodies generally, come under threat when they make "transit" into the prison. All bodies in prisons then undergo what I term a "trans-terror", a systematic vulnerability that often includes sexual violation. In

The eighty thousand or more prisoners who endure "solitary confinement" in U.S. prisons are adjudged victims of a slow assault on the dignity of the person, a disintegration of body and psyche—clearly, sufferers of torture.

Correctional officers, who lack resources for caring for the elderly, are also systematically hostile to providing medical treatment of prisoners, even though "the graying of the prison population has become a national epidemic afflicting states around the country—from California to Missouri to Florida.

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

the Germans were 'picking out the revolutionists and Liberals from the many Russian prisoners of war, furnishing them with money and false passports and papers, and sending them back to Russia to stir up a revolution

It takes a particular type of human being to want to be a hack. Half of their waking hours they are prisoners themselves, inmates by their own free will. Uneducated and underpaid, the only thing they have going for them is feeling superior to the helpless prisoners. Here, at last, are men they can look down upon because they have them in their power. If

With a poignancy he had never felt during the half-stupefying agony on the beach, he was beset by a terrible consciousness of the world's ever-renewed, ever-varied, never-dying pain: children and animals without hope in the present moment's eternity; the prisoners of cruel men, the cruel terribly imprisoned in themselves...

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.

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.

After ten days in solitary confinement, many prisoners display clear signs of mental harm, and one study showed that about a third will eventually develop active psychosis. There are at least eighty thousand such inmates in America. The United Nations has determined that holding a person in isolation for more than fifteen days is cruel and inhuman punishment.

The women say that they perceive their bodies in their entirety. They say that they do not favour any of its parts on the grounds that it was formerly a forbidden object. They say that they do not want to become prisoners of their own ideology. They say that they did not garner and develop the symbols that were necessary to them at an earlier period to demonstrate their strength.

experiments, some of them rather gruesome. On one occasion, he fed two prisoners the same large dinner, sent one to bed and the other on a headlong hunt, then cut them open to see which had better digested the meal. (It was the sleeper.)

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

The majority of prisoners are society's greatest enemies and sinners, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated like royalty; by offering them free meals every day.

Blackwell's Island, now Roosevelt Island, was a nineteenth-century hellhole that housed prisoners, debtors, and the insane.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts