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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.
I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.
The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.
The first visit I made to Australia was in 1996 when I was the prisons' minister and was looking at other countries' penal systems.
Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.
I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.
By and large, prisons are survivable, though hope is indeed what you need least upon entering here; a lump of sugar would be more useful.
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there.
There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.
[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.
I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.
The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.
The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.
A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
