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In prison you’ve got all kinds of people. People beating up people for their commissary, people beating up people for their tennis shoes. You’ve got people sodomizing people, you know, just rambunctious.
Prison is a second by second assault on the soul, a day to day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.
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The primary obligation of any prisoner is to escape. Whether that means actually leaving or simply figuring out a way to handle things so you don't go crazy is up to you.
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Most prisons have wide gates!
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Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Prison is a socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.
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Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
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Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
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Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades.
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Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion.
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
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Prisons of stone and iron may hold the body for long and painful years in darkness, but they cannot shut out the light of truth from the truth loving soul; they cannot destroy the peace of the dutiful spirit.
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Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.
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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
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Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
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Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.
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Prison has taught me that there is a part of you that no one can ever take from you, and that is your heart.
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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
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Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
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Prison is like high school with knives.
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In prison, ones worst enemies will always be the brothers of ones own race.
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Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
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How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of punishment for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.
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We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
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Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon.
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Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would be investigator out.
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All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.
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Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.
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Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
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It is in prison that one becomes a real revolutionary.
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Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
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Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
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Prison’s not a nice place to be. Those people are not in there for singing in the choir.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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