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“I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.”

Years Names Prison Brown

Author:Foxy Brown

“The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.”

Home Games Blind Prison Communicate Kicks Hospitals

Author:Jack Buck

“It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.”

Light Political Turns Peace Democracy Prison Cells Prisoner Dictatorship Machinery Turn-on True You Political Prisoners

Author:Corazon Aquino

“I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.”

Humans Social Numbers Issues Rights Prison Rate Human Rights Social Issues Rebuilding Recidivism

Author:Sam Brownback

“I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.”

Heard Car Shots Murder Prison Texas

Author:Duane Chapman

“The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.”

Earth Hell Worst Prison Closest Hell On Earth

Author:Duane Chapman

“Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.”

Letters Yeah Prison

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.”

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Author:Ray Comfort

“I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

“After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.”

Ifs Men Mean Names He Man Revolution Men And Women Prison Bounds

Book:We cannot live without our lives

Source: We cannot live without our lives

“Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?”

Thinking Want Littles Purpose Next Crime Becoming Cost Skills Sitting Weight Prison Violent Purpose Of Life Lifting Lifting Weights

Author:John Ensign

“Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.”

Years Wells Realizing Taken One Thing Expression Judging Prison Granted Freedom Of Expression Taken For Granted Courtroom

Author:Larry Flynt

“I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.”

Knows Used Crime Willing Unique Beats Prison Phones Lawyer Backgrounds Used To Be Suspense Cop Reporters Phone Calls Specialty

Author:Lisa Gardner

“When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.”

Said Done Crazy Security Reader Taste Research Prison Bones Shooting Collections Etc Locked Location Maximum Gallery Intimidating Visiting Psych Trust Myself

Author:Lisa Gardner

“Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.”

Ifs Inspirational Needs I Can Today Generations Prison Greed Stuck Elevation Today's Generation

Author:Tupac Shakur

“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.”

May Soul Body Law Order Lord Wall Prison My Soul

Author:Johnny Cash

“Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.”

Forgiveness Forgiving Prison Forgive Yourself

Author:Louise Hay

“We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.”

Political Prison Internals Exile

Author:Augusto Pinochet

“They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.”

Men Politics Causes Dangerous Prison Offense Fifth Crowded Dangerous Man

Author:Hank Williams, Jr.

“I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.”

Years Five Prison Folks Five Years Prison System

Author:Stedman Graham

“You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.”

Knows Men Heart Today Black Percent Prison Negativity

Author:Stedman Graham

“Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.”

People World Looks Country Prison Saved Nelson

Author:George Foreman

“I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.”

Believe Crime Serious Prison Criminals Violent Violent Criminals

Author:Kamala Harris

“Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.”

People Today Prison Cents Sixty Entering Illiterate Illiterate Person

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!”

Sometimes Use Might Faces Prison Makeup Your Face Juice Grapes Spears Inmates

Author:Joel McHale

“I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.”

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Author:Janis Karpinski

“The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'”

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Author:Gerard K. O'Neill

“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.”

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Author:Jonathan King