#prison

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#among #orderly #peaceable #prisoners #themselves

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#become #coming #dig #garden #going

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#increased #more #over #past #population

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Jack Herer

#dead #hands #only #police #prisons

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#eventually #family #finding #give #good

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...] ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #prison #freedom

A shopping cart flipped upside down forms a cage that I use to protect myself from consumerism. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#consumerism #prison #shopping #change

Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands while they took their last breath. It was the other side of death, not the one at the end of a sudden muzzle flash, but the slow and wrenching kind, leaving plenty of time for hard reflection. ↗

— Lisa R. Cohen

#murderers #prison #prisoners #serving-life #change