Quotes about Incarceration

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I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock t — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to — Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her leg — John Rachel
Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are acc — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that th — Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much — Damien Echols, Life After Death
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 minute — John Rachel
Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His sp — Leo Tolstoy, The Forged Coupon
Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart — Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains — Bryan Stevenson
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims o — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of a — Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because — Paul Beatty, The Sellout
Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad — Johnnie Dent Jr.
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individua — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
[C]ritics of Canadian securities regulators sometimes point out that a number of high-profile US securities cases have r — Paul Halpern, Back from the Brink: Lessons from the Canadian Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Crisis
If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then — Edward M. Wolfe, When Everything Changed
Don’t serve time. Make time serve you. — Timothy G. Cameron
The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in prison is a fiction — Michelle Alexander