"Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt."
- Jack Henry Abbott
"Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story."
- Jason Medina
"rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision"
- Norman Mailer
"And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunnin..."
- James Clavell
"If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume ir..."
- Ellen DeGeneres
"I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finney. “They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, sle..."
- Louise Penny
"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremos..."
- Oscar Wilde
"You could cut...all that"
- Mel Bossa
"What is going to happen to the Aurorans?""They are prisoners of war," Albion said. "I should imagine they will be set to work at the base of the Spire."Grimm tightened his jaw. "No, sir.""No?""No, sir..."
- Jim Butcher
"You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison"
- Bangambiki Habyarimana