#prison

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ↗

— William Blake

#brothels #built #law #prisons #religion

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #busy #clothing #confinement #does

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors! ↗

— Nellie Bly

#comparison #driven #easier #fault #gallows

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#fight #help #innocent #people #prison

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#accept #bitterness #could #deserve #did

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#escaping #especially #films #ones #prison

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. ↗

— Freddy Fender

#i #lot #people #prison #separated

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#applied #chair #electricity #expert #father

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#girl #got #i #just #long

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#diaries #education #end #felt #i