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Quotes About Prison

TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.
~ Abby Lee Miller
Being away with a national side at a tournament can be hard - you train, go back to your hotel, and often, you sit in your room, watching TV or speaking to people at home. If there's no communal area, it can feel like being in prison, staring at the same four walls all the time.
~ Alex Scott
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
~ George Ripley
There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just processes people rather than a system that fairly administers justice.
~ Bill Shorten
I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.
~ Richard LaGravenese
I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
~ Conrad Black
If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.
~ Michelle Alexander
You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually, it starts to eat away at you. And if you don't work at yourself mentally or physically or spiritually, eventually you're going to be swallowed up by circumstance.
~ Michael Sorrentino
Filesharing in Sweden can't get you into prison, so there's nothing criminal about helping people to fileshare.
~ Peter Sunde
When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.
~ Michelle Alexander
People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabilitate 95 percent of the people who go into the prison system and come out, far more innocent people are going to be harmed.
~ Thom Tillis
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.
~ John Legend
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.
~ Elizabeth Flock
And many thanks to you, Mrs. Blackwell, for bringing the weaknesses of our cell locks to our attention. She broke out twice," the officer informed Saxon. "We finally had to tie her up.
~ Rebecca Paisley
The guards hate the priest. To them, men like the priest paper the sky with romantic tissue-paper legends, but down here below the earth, in this enchanted place, we know life cannot be contained on a slogan or a prayer tablet. We know that kindness rules with the fist and chains rule with a turn to the sky, that all humans require penance and without it we all seek punishment, over and over again, until the body and mind are satisfied and we die.
~ Rene Denfeld
The system creates criminals out of men, then incarcerates and kills them for the criminals they become- Ras Cardo.
~ Ricardo A Scott
It isn't all omen, Wood. Tarot teaches us to see beyond surface effects. The falling man- While the Tower was a stronghold built to protect him, it has become a place of isolation, a prison from which the lightning has freed him. He's falling, but he hasn't landed. His future is unknown. If he survives, he will no longer dwell in the clouds. He will be part of the world.
~ Rich Shapero
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
~ Richard Baxter
Shi Zhe wrote in his memoir, "and if you didn't confess you were tortured and stayed in prison. The more stories you made up the better you were treated.
~ Richard Bernstein
One of her classmates asked a prisoner what was the worst thing about being there. "The first time they fuck you in the ass," he replied, and this was the first time that she and her classmates learned about that kind of rape.
~ Richard Grant
Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.
~ Rick Warren
He had been so lonely, so desperately, hopelessly lonely for so long. He might very well spend the rest of his life in prison, alone. And he understood that what he wanted now was something much simpler, much more complicated than the magic he had performed. What he wanted was to turn to somebody and take hold of their hand and look up with them and marvel at the snow falling from the sky. "This," he wanted to say to someone he loved and who loved him in return. "This.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I'll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens." "Yes, good, that's where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I'll meet you there." Without
~ Kate Elliott