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Prison Quotes
Most Famous Prison Quotes of All Time!
Actors who spend time on set discussing scenes with the cast often pause to imagine the harsher reality an actual inmate would face beyond a short visit. Convincing audiences that an impossible escape feels plausible takes real skill, a challenge our Being quotes touch on.
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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many innocent people in prison.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
After five years in prison, five years on parole, and a total of 10 years of being in hell, I can look back on it all and say I played in four NFL games. It's incredible.
- Bryant
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- Nov 07, 2020
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
- Disability
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just processes people rather than a system that fairly administers justice.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 18, I could have not been here. I could have been another statistic. All the odds were in favour of my just going to prison at that age. I had no visions of being a superstar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got rounded up by the police in Quito as I didn't have my passport with me. I was in prison for a night, which was pretty frightening, made more so when one of my male companions started crying.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
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