Quotes About Prison

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

Behind the razor wire and barred windows were some of the most violent men in the state of Florida. Murderers, robbers, pedophiles, rapists.

they would not be allowed to mourn him when he passed, either. They were just supposed to watch quietly with the rest of the witnesses when the warden pulled the black curtain back and the crowd outside the prison gates began to cheer. . . .

Corrections had also sized his orange jumpsuit wrong—which they were known to do with child molesters and other particularly repugnant inmates—making him appear smaller and slighter

even if it meant early release of a few low-level felons or minor mental defectives

also may explain why the prison population in America consisting of more than six million people, exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history.

Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use behind bars. They are just unfortunate metaphors that allow people outside prison to be less uncomfortable in discussing human limitations.

So that's the story of how I committed statutory rape less than twenty-four hours out of prison--on my birthday no less

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me… and asked me in a whisper… "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.

They were uncertain, resentful, and somewhat ill at ease. This they hid by pretending an elaborate relief at being out of the army, and by assuring each other that military discipline should never again rule their stubborn, liberty-loving wills. Yet, as a matter of fact, they would have felt more at home in a prison than in this newfound and unquestionable freedom.

Rejoice for a comrade deceased, Our loss is his infinite gain, A soul out of prison released, And free from its bodily chain. ~Smokey Lonesome