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Offenses that are held on to lead to death.
[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.
The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance
Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
Are there no prisons?
How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.
victim's rights to keep the criminal locked up.
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.
There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will."
"It sounds hideously barbaric"
"Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.
One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system - in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis)
There is a crime commited by the society against the individual,a crime that is commited afresh each day
prison for writing seditious articles, and made use of
There are worse prisons than words.
We have decided to lock people up for social deviancy these days. We tell ourselves that we're not running debtors' prisons, that this isn't Dickensian
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
Security without liberty is called prison.
Punishment creates crime.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The severest justice may not always be the best policy
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.
Imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
We don't punish criminals in our enlightened age, we cure 'em; and the cure is worse than punishment.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
years in a U.S. civilian jail
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.
Sanity and sense becomes a prison.
When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.
The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
this free-man's prison known as life.
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds of thousands of people while at the same time cutting billions of dollars
from programs that would provide opportunity to young Americans.
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
Guilt is a prison,
We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
Freedom or prison
what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Let's Elevate, Educate, and Empower Our Youth ... Not Incarcerate Them! Try To HELP Our Youth ... Don't HURT Them! Lord knows they'll have plenty of enough hurdles to leap over in their lives!
All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.
Some things you sentence yourself to life for.
Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment in their painful past.
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings ...
Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.
The judge sentenced us to life
real, awake life
out of the jails we had been roaming in
life in prism
then started handing out fines
for parking too long.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.
Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.
Arrest the meek! Reward the obnoxious!
A sense of duty imprisons you.
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
Prison for the crime of puberty
that was how secondary school had seemed.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.
Prison house for the soul
In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is
My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.
The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.
the death penalty, and the sooner the better.
We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Further, more African Americans today are under criminal justice supervision - either in prison, on parole or probation - than were enslaved 10 years before the Civil War (Alexander 2012
Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors; but neither the branding irons nor chains will make him forget that he is a man.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.
Prisons are the universities of the opposition.
A common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.
Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!
It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.
A felon's cell
The fittest earthly type of hell!
subsequently sentenced to five minutes on the Wall.
the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.