Prison Quotes

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

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.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

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?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.