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“Prison madness is much the same! Insanity is plentiful in prisons. These days with the drug culture it’s not a lot of difference, as a lot of convicts make themselves psychotic and paranoid. Many end up killers, all over petty and minor problems. Where men would once squabble, fight and kill over a ½ oz of bacca they now do the same over a gram of white powder or a bag of brown!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.”
“Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.”
“Prison Moon
Four a.m. work duty and I begin
my solitary trudge from outer compound
to main building. A shivering guard,
chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searches
me until content that my inconsequential nudity.
poses no threat and then whispers
the secret code that allows me admittance
into the open quarter-mile walkway.
I chuff my way into another day
as ice glints on the razor wire
and the rifles note my numbed passage,
silent but for my huffs and scuffle
on the cracked, slippery sidewalk
A new moon, veiled in wispy fog
and beringed in glory, hangs over the prison,
its gaudy glow taunting the halogen spotlights.
The moon’s creamy pull upsets
some liquid equilibrium within me
and like tides, wolves and all manner
of madmen, I surrender disturbed by the certainty that under
the bony luminescence of a grinning moon
The lunar deliriums grip me
and I howl--once, then again, and
surely somewhere an unbound sleeper stirs,
penitence is dying a giddy death.
I shake myself sane
and as the echoes hang
in the frigid air I explain
to the wild-eyed guard that convicts,
like all animals under the leash,
must bay at the beauty beyond them.”
“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”
“Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.”
“Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.”
“Prison & Psychiatry: where Psychopaths meet Control-Freaks.”
“Prison pulls the masks away from men. You can't hide what you are, in prison. You can't pretend to be tough. You are, or you're not, and everyone knows it.”
Source: Shantaram
“Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.”
“Prison ultimately did make a good reader out of me, something I cannot imagine a modern American university education doing.”
“Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.”
Source: Kind and usual punishment: the prison business
“Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up.”
“Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.”
“Prison, yay!”
Source: Prison Life is Easy for a Villainess: Volume 2
“Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.”
“Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.”
“PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.”
“Prisoner of Her Own Captivity”
“Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.”
“Prisoners are literally an enslaved workforce, not only to external companies like Starbucks and Whole Foods, but to the state of California itself. The prison provides jobs in the town for guards and nurses, a couple of counselors. But not for janitors, cooks, people who make furniture. These are all parts of America's sprawling slave labor system.”
“Prisoners are often denied their basic human rights by their captors.”
“Prisoners are often kept permanently indoors.”
“Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.”
“Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?”
Source: Masterpieces of murder
“Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.”
“Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.”
“Prisoners often sleep with the lights on 24 hours a day.”
“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
“Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.”
“Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a friend.
A friend will help you move; a true friend will help you move a body.
A friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting beside you.
Who wouldn’t want to have a true friend? But they sound a lot like a sociopath.”
Source: Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
“Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.”
“Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.”
“Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Prisons are the universities of the opposition.”
“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist
“Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.”
“Prisons by Stewart Stafford
There are prisons of bars and jailers,
There are dungeons of the mind,
And of family blackmailers.
Some sit manacled in a marriage cell,
Thunderous isolation next door,
All aflame in loveless hell.
Misery, with no parole in poverty's trap,
While in privileged ivory towers nearby,
Elite confinement in luxury's lap.
Inmates break free to a new golden age,
Other jailbirds await merciful luck,
Destined never to escape the cage.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.”
Source: Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
“Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?”
Source: Thoughts
“Prisons exist to hide the fact that the entire system is a jail. Shopping malls conceal the reality that the whole of America is a shopping mall. America is a vast shop. It is not a nation. It does not exist these days to land men on the men and do “the difficult thing”. It exists to shop and do the easy thing. The purpose of America is to create maximum profits for the 1% who run America. Everything is designed to serve that end, and everyone goes along with it. One of the 1% is now the President. The middlemen – the politicians – have been cut out. America creates apparent perimeters around explicitly imaginary domains (such as Disneyland), but the truth is that reality no more exists outside the limits than inside the limits. The effect of the “imaginary” is to conceal the loss of the real. The more energy that America devotes to the imaginary – via Disney, Hollywood, “reality” TV (actually unreality TV), video games, virtual reality, social media, “fake news”, post-truth, and so on – the further the real recedes into the distance. Is it possible for America to return to the real now? Would it even know what the real was? How would it recognize it? America has become hyperreal. It’s not real at all. It is “more real than real” and also “less real than real”, the problem being that “more” and “less” would make sense only if there were a reality to serve as a comparison point. That’s exactly what is lacking.”
Source: Unreal City: The Strange Disappearance of Reality
“Prisons, far from providing a path to redemption, often exacerbate the very issues they aim to resolve.”
Source: What is Wrong with Society Today
“PRISONS/GARDENS
Cages are made
for people living on the outside to catch things evil, beautiful or just unaccepted;
Nothing ever outgrows the space of captivity nor does it ever bloom.
If we ever offered some light to the shadows we hide we could have a whole garden within our society by now.”
“Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.”
“Prisons were like villages, where each cell was like a house and had its own set of rules.”
“Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.”
“Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.”