#prison

Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God. ↗

— Karen Chance

#pritkin #prison

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government. ↗

— Carl Cohen

#boredom #coercion #experiment #government #justice

The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#experience

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#prison #freedom

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#prison #solitude #life

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ↗

— Gary Becker

#because #efficient #fine #fines #imprisonment

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#fortunate #i #i remember #knew #know

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#public-school #slums #home

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton. ↗

— Lou Duva

#come #expect #four #out #princeton

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each