Quotes About Prison

There's a crying shortage of pretty things in the slam, and the real pity of it is that a lot of men don't even seem to miss them.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

Without God, there is a danger that we will stay trapped within the prison of the self. As

Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you're not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer.

15Then the angel said, This place, until the consummation of heaven and earth, will be the prison of the stars, and the host of heaven. 16The stars which roll over fire are those which transgressed the commandment of God before their time arrived; for they came not in their proper season. Therefore was He offended with them, and bound them, until the period of the consummation of their crimes in the secret year.

I felt like a guy in a cell being stared at longingly by a naked one-hundred-and-ten-kilo lifer. You know, sooner or later, that something unpleasant is going to happen to you. -The Ballad of the Low Lifes, by Enrico Remmert (2003), P. 20

En otras palabras, vive prisionero de su casticismo, completamente poseído por su lenguaje de camarero español, por su terrible habla tradicional y desacomplejada, que parece que tenga que ser la única normal, la única eternamente auténtica de aquí a cien mil leguas a la redonda.

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At this point, a mental institution was a far likelier future home for Jenny than a prison. "But before I do, I need you to help me with something," Jenny said. "Out on the back deck. I've got two dozen containers of gasoline waiting." She shoved the butt of the gun into Maya's spine. "Go.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Prison gives you time to reflect.

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their current offense.

There may be connections between the nearest prison to Oxford these days, HMP Bullingdon, and other institutions of that name. I have yet to investigate these and, on reflection, probably won't.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

Prison reform, peace, and a presidential pardon - just a portion of Kushner's portfolio.

In offering deals on immigration, infrastructure, and prison reform, President Trump has demonstrated that he is ready for compromise. But will Democrats take up his offer?

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.