80 Quotes About Prisoners

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Hicks szemügyre vette a könyveket, amiket Maura begyűjtött a polcokról: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.- Ezek horrortörténetek! - kiáltott fel. - Hagyjuk, hogy az elítéltek ilyesmit olvassanak?- Csak ezt olvassák, meg a romantikus regényeket, uram - jelentette ki Maura (...).

Prison is like high school with knives.

IN OUR CELLSThey keep us in our cellsFor a long time...And, if we get out,We lug them with us on our shoulders,Like a porter with a chest of goods.

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.(from "Gratitude")

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.

The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second.

A couple of ounces ruled your life.