"Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world."
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"Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham]."
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"I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that."
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"People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse."
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"Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment."
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"Are there no prisons?"
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"I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it."
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"I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing."
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"Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison."
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"What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer."
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"I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible."
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"Responsibility prevents crimes."
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"Make not your thoughts your prisons."
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"Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong."
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"Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons."
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"I hate liver, but I could imagine eating some with a little bit of ketchup. Like, a lot of ketchup. I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably."
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"I could survive in a Turkish prison, probably."
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"The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them."
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"While crime is punished it yet increases."
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"No crime has been without a precedent."
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