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Prison Quotes

I just absolutely, totally hated school. It was like a prison to me. I just could not stand that structured, absolute disciplined way of having to deal with life.

Life School Me Prison Stand Way

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Johnnie Cochran

Money Man Free Prison Will Out

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

Experience Pain Prison Say Inside

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.

Day Book Reading Forward Prison You

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

Believe Prison Wrong Sometimes May

I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

Experience Research Prison House Hot

I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn't plan work, I couldn't plan vacations, I couldn't plan dinner, I couldn't plan homework, I couldn't plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis.

Work Day Monday Dinner Prison End

Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.

Impossible Prison Someone Problem

Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

People Door Prison House Creating

My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.

War Game Prison You Back Escape

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Prison Top Right Hierarchy

Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

Moving Prison Sometimes Development

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

Prison Language You Others Sense

As a Republican Party, we're going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don't want to let violent felons out of prison.

Prison Think Conversation Party Want

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Prison Name Year Just Because Just

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

Prison Paid Bill

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?

Prison You Pictures Know Want Kind

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Daniel Berrigan

Community Prison Now Three Right Us

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.

Prison American Long Citizen Hearing

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

Life Sad People Me Prison My Life

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Good Sacrifice Reputation Prison You

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi and Idi Amin look like Sunday-school teachers.

People Me Tough Prison Look Human

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Michel Foucault

Work Discipline Society Prison Whole

The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.

Elizabeth Flock

Space Prison Pressure Growing System

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