52 Quotes About Incarceration

The Fulcrum is not the first institution to have learned an eternal truth of humankind: No need for guards when you can convince people to collaborate in their own internment.

The bars of the window of this little cell have given me new knowledge that no land, rivers, forests - not mountains, no matter how beloved, can belong to any one. I had simply been foolish. Henceforward, even the number of breaths that I inhale is measured by another.

খেলার বাইরেবেটা কবি ! লাথি মেরে বের করে দাও।এখানে ওর কোনি কাজ নেই ।ও খেলতে জানে না । ও কখনও উত্তেজিত হয় নাকিংবা স্পষ্ট করে কথা বলে ।ও এমনকি অলৌকিক ব্যাপার দেখতে পায় না ।

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.

While incarceration has always had a class-based and racial dimension, during the neoliberal era, class and racial inequalities in prison admission have increased considerably.

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

You can have a two-year sentence but it doesn't mean you're not doing life.

Ex-offenders are expected to pay fines and court costs, and submit paperwork to multiple agencies in an effort to win back a right that should never have been taken away in a democracy.

...Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully, but only because they were an obstacle hindering the officials and the rich from enjoying the property they had taken away from the people.