"I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction."
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"My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing."
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"Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution."
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"Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured."
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"Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy."
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"A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner."
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"By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere."
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"While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim."
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"I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything."
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"Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband."
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"They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function."
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"Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live."
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"I am happy in my prison of passion"
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"It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons."
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"Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few."
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"The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death."
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"Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
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"I could go to juvie instead of real prison."
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"I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison."
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"Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others."
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