#prison

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. ↗

— Sun Ra

#american #bars #began #behind #feel

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#country #day #did #every #every day

Not all political prisoners are innocents. ↗

— David Remnick

#political #political prisoners #prisoners

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community. ↗

— Janet Reno

#back #come #community #each #four

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#brother #i #i think #just #last

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. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#class #criminal #element #free #i

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#anywhere #condition #crime #customs #deplorable

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open. ↗

— Bernard Kerik

#eyes #going #like #open #prison

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#doubt #expect #i #no doubt #prison