Quotes About Prison

The simple truth is that America is locking up too many people, for too long, and spending too much money on them.

Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

In the Averoff prison hospital I saw men who had had the bones in their feet broken by the severity of the torture.

If there was one senator who could truly empathize with being tortured in prison, it was John McCain.

People don't seem to be safe inside Pentonville, and now it transpires inmates can escape. That is the final straw. If they don't have control of the place, what is the point of it being there? This was built in 1842 and is totally inappropriate for modern needs.

Prison was better organised than a supermarket, with a larger selection of items and more customer-friendly opening hours. Including Sundays and public holidays

Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

"There is a greater prison than Kuje; it is the conscience of men. A President who was sponsored with stolen money by a thief, is in a greater prison with the thief. And it shall manifest soon". - Sen Shehu Sanni (APC Kaduna State).

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

I exhale a highway of smoke and stare down it, then say, Each day has just been survival, just getting through, standing it. Don't you see how savage that sounds? Like, that's the way men in prison yards think. You live in a rich suburb and teach literature.

The slang for the rectum is prison wallet.

On the way here, I stopped in the office of a block captain who wanted to tell me about an inmate who was caught with two boxes of staples, a pencil sharpener, sharpener blades, and three jumbo binder rings in his rectum. He became known as "OD," for Office Depot. They never found out what he intended to do with the stuff.

During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison-room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me. Despair! Who dared talked of that? The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the dreary boundary between life and death, felt not as I did, such deep and bitter agony.

C'era una volta uno spirito malvagio dalle sembianze di una gigantesca volpe a nove code. Con il solo movimento delle sue code, la volpe poteva provocare frane e maremoti. Per far fronte a quello spirito, la gente invocò l'aiuto dei ninja. Uno solo di quei ninja, a costo della propria vita, riuscì a imprigionare lo spirito. Quel ninja era il Quarto Hokage.

On November 16, 2009, Sergei Magnitsky died in prison at the age of thirty-seven.

2011, human-rights activists estimated that fully 15 percent of the Russian prison population was made up of entrepreneurs who had been thrown behind bars by well-connected competitors who used the court system

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

For too many people, the only difference between spending life in a job and spending life in a prison is that a prison would give them better health benefits.

They say the heart of the earth is made of fire. It is held imprisoned and silent. But at times it breaks through the clay, the iron, the granite, and shoots out to freedom. Then it becomes a thing like this.