- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prison Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
- Each Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
- Mute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020