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Quotes About Incarcerated

In San Francisco, the Stalker knew, it would be easier to get in and out of people's homes; they would not be so cautious and vigilant about security as everyone in L.A. had become. The thought of stopping never entered his mind. There were only two ways he would stop: he'd either die or be incarcerated.
~ Philip Carlo
bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell.
~ Raegan Butcher
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
~ Steve Buscemi
It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.
~ Raekwon
Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars.
~ Frederick Longbridge
TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.
~ Abby Lee Miller
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
~ Martha Stewart
but there it was. Home was prison was home.
~ Robert K. Tanenbaum
Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.
~ Jerry Brown
They arrested us after breakfast.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.
~ Chelsea Manning
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
~ Eskinder Nega
I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and wildness that came up. It was a really strong trope.
~ Grayson Perry
Against accusations of being a crackpot, he could have proved that he was sane. He had papers to show it, given him upon his release from a mental institution where once, some years before, he had been briefly incarcerated.
~ Fredric Brown
Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.
~ Jose Canseco
What was happening was a maniacal assault on the inhabitants of the Paris prisons, with some of the royal family's most beloved attendants still incarcerated in the La Force. These included the Marquise de Tourzel and Pauline-and that hate figure so often in obscene popular publications, the lesbian paramour of the "Infamous Antoinette", the Princesse de Lamballe.
~ Antonia Fraser
Charles) Laughton was one of the most pugnaciously morose men I had ever met. His huge talent seemed to endorse his implacable resentment. His Caliban self-portraiture must have been further agnozied by being incarcerated, like so many of his unhappy generation, in that closet which dared not speak its name. Even his large collection of Klees and Kokoshchkas was displayed as trophies of martyrdom rather than joyful plunder.
~ John Osborne
A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
~ George Sterling
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.
~ Wesley Snipes
The US has 5 percent of the world's population, and 25 percent of the world's prison population.
~ Shane Claiborne
SHOULD CIRCUMSTANCE PREVENT a man from carrying his cigarettes and cell phone in his pants pocket, the rectum provides a workable alternative. So workable that well over a thousand pounds of tobacco and hundreds of cell phones are rectally smuggled into California state prisons each year. The contraband allows incarcerated gang members and narcotics dealers to make business calls from behind bars (and to enjoy a smoke while doing so).
~ Mary Roach
Kwang Jingshu was arrested by the MSS and incarcerated without formal
~ Max Brooks
Kaladin frowned. "Wait. Are you wearing cologne? In prison?" "Well, there was no need to be barbaric, just because I was incarcerated." "Storms, you're spoiled," Kaladin said, smiling. "I'm refined, you insolent farmer," Adolin said. Then he grinned. "Besides, I'll have you know that I had to use cold water for my baths while here." "Poor boy.
~ Brandon Sanderson