"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."
"Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution."
"Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured."
"Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy."
"A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner."
"By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere."
"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."
"I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything."
"Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband."
"They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function."
"Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live."
"I am happy in my prison of passion"
"It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons."
"Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few."
"The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death."
"Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
"I could go to juvie instead of real prison."
"I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison."
"Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others."