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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
The better question was, what was holding us prisoners?
A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners
Criminals of this stature are usually sent abroad for their punishment, where there are jailhouses
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
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.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
There are worse prisons than words.
If they could keep out of jail for this short stretch, most would go on to be the spine of American society - fixing the cars, working the factories, growing the food and fighting the wars.
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.
This is preposterous. Why would I lie? I'm not a criminal. The criminals are the ones in the cells." - Mien
"The prisoners are the ones in the cells," Skulduggery corrected. "Criminals can be anyywhere.
If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone.
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient - people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled.
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
willing prisoner
Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.
They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what they've been told all their lives: that they are worthless and that they will die or be incarcerated before they reach twenty-five.
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who'd give all they've got to be out of the racket and in a place like this, only they can't get out! Are we in the prison or are they?
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
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.
I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Their job seemed to me so hopeless, so appalling that I wondered how anyone could put up with such a thing when prison was a possible alternative.
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.
I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.
Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
this free-man's prison known as life.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
What good are prisoners? I much prefer devoted slaves.
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.
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin
These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.
When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.
People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.
Every invalid is a prisoner.
Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.
It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect.
The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
Wrote the name and serial number of each prisoner in a big, red ledger. Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead. So it goes.
If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.
They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose. To torture me, to torment me, to keep me from sleeping through the night ever again.
These people did not give me to eat, they did not give me to drink, I lay naked in prison and they did not visit me,
the wizard prison,
(Prisoners) need an education. They need a GED to start with. Then they need some kind of training so when they get out they have a marketable skill. That way they can support themselves and they can support their families.
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.
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.
Not all prisons have bars
In great ceremony they entered the prison.
They were never to be seen again.
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
It is a common experience among jailbirds to wake up and wonder why they are in jail
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?
One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
What is the point, what is the reason, to lock people away for years, when it seems to mean so very little, even to the jailers who hold the key?
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.
The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn't even know he's in prison.
one was present, interacting in any affirmative way with the people who filled those prisons.
any place you don't want to be is a prison.
The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.
They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.
The cells of death row are filled with guys who had nothing to hide.
To use the old jailhouse term and not the modern rock and roll one, a punk's question.
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world ... jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings ...
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
Dearest - every person is a prison and also a recess.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.
Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?
Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.
Genre is a minimum security prison,
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.