51 quotes found
“The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.”
“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 pe...”
“A major challenge of this movement is to do the work that will create more humane, habitable environments for people in prison without bolstering the permanence of the prison system. How, then, do ...”
“Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.”
“During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse ...”
“We call our system the Department of Corrections, or simply Corrections, but correcting or any notion of rehabilitation has been largely thrown to the wayside in favor of punitive action through th...”
“You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.”
“I was up really early. It was the day of my selection tests and interviews to become a Prison Officer. The recruitment process was an absolute joke ... Everyone could have travelled round the world...”
“In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.”
“Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.”
“Prison would kill him. Not neatly or cleanly or quickly, It would kill him with ten thousand days of gray, each taking a bite of his sanity until all that remained was huddled terror with the body ...”
“Great institutions have leaders who are proud of what they do, and who engage with everyone who makes up those institutions, so each person understands their role. But our jailers are generally gra...”
“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a prison is a prison is a prison. The structure of authori...”
“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.”
“There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.”
“The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming young smells, which stand on both feet and look the world in the eye. We bec...”
“Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.”
“In durance vile here must I wake and weep And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”
“While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
