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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.”

“Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.”

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Author:John Grisham

“I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.”

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Book:Correction: A Novel

Source: Correction: A Novel

“I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.”

Made Prison Inmates

Author:Kim Coates

“One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.”

“If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.”

“The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.”

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Author:John McLaughlin

“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.”

Mean Courses Education College Development Program Credit Good Times Treatment Fewer Literacy Incentives Funding Elimination Parole Inmates College Courses

Author:Bobby Scott

“Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.”

“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”

People Thinking Men Writing May Mean Belief Common Talking He Man Theory Silly Common Sense Odd Protest Daily Life Lunatic Asylums Inmates Lunatic Asylums Silly People

Author:C. D. Broad

“If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.”

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Author:William Wordsworth

“Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.”

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Author:David Warlick

“As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.”

Men Looks Doe Character Materials Ruins Belonging Palaces Splendid Deserted Inmates

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.”

Children Home Bigs Poor Cities Half Path Fate Streets Crime Ordinary Prison Finals Instance Gates Orphan Big Cities Inmates

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.”

Children Doe Poor Poverty Doubt Benefits Privilege Powerless Inmates Benefit Of The Doubt

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

“Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.”

Hollywood Asylums Inmates

Author:Laurence Stallings

“For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.”

“The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.”

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Book:Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.”

Force Half Millions Crime Drug Alcohol Epidemics Blunt Inmates

Author:Michael Botticelli

“New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.”

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Author:Colin Quinn

“Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.”

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Author:Erving Goffman

“The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.”

Writing Years Remember Couple Prison Magazines Inmates

Author:Patricia McConnell

“I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.”

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Author:Cecily McMillan

“When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can get taught a painful lesson. And there are inmates with a level of consciousness who feel it's their duty to enforce this segregation.”

Ifs Feels Levels Race Consciousness Taught Duty Lessons Painful Prisoner Yards Segregation Inmates

Author:James Fox

“I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“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.”

Thinking Important Gone Plans Prison Inmates

Author:Russell Simmons

“Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.”

Knows Men Science Social Known Knowledge Scientist Infinite Instance Affected Asylums Unpredictability Inmates

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.”

Mind Art Dangerous Danger Temptation Wander Invites Apartment Outcast Mansions Deserted Desolate Vacant Abode Inmates

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.”

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Author:Malcolm X

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