593 Quotes About Prison

Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.

I live locked in the prison of my negative attitude. And despite the impenetrable walls that loom above me and about me, freedom is mine should I choose it. For the key of thankfulness will effortlessly open every door in every wall in every place like this one.

He understood that for all intents and purposes he was now under arrest for his suicide attempt.

The toughest prison in the world is not physical, you don't get there by committing crimes, you only find yourself there when trapped in a wrong relationship, abusive marriage, unforgiveness, and low self-esteem.

Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or violence, or confronting the social forces that affect them.

The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision.

Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance? Isn't it actually submission?

He imagined her sitting in that overstuffed chair in the evening lamplight, reading while he read, listening while he told her how long the days would be if he did not almost believe she was with him there.

Sitting across the dinner table was a man who had paid a massive price for hoping and trying for a just world, who had fathered and then neglected me, who wasn’t aware that the rage he harbored had killed all other impulses in him […] And here I was, sliding down a similar inevitable path.