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Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

Oscar Wilde

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Germaine Greer

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush

It's a hard call to make a decision to put your friends in prison.

Joseph Darby

Sounds like there's enough years -- he'll probably die in prison. What more could we ask for?

Tony Case

These failure rates on probation, parole and Community Corrections are having just as much effect on driving prison growth as anything passed by the Legislature has.

Christie Donner

What Charlie did was facilitate and pay people who were going to help people exercise their franchise. What could be accomplished by sending Charlie to prison? The vote of poor people in this country will be suppressed as it always has.

Bruce Cook

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

Henry David Thoreau

California is now going to have a prison system that is like that of the other states and the federal government. Integration means people won't be coming off buses (into prisons) and have the color of their skin determine their cellmate.

Bert Deixler

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

William Glasser

The FBI will be going into each institution and assessing each population. It's encouraging that prison populations are getting looked at because in my mind they're breeding grounds for criminal and disruptive behavior.

Todd Slosek

From the first day, I knew I'm going to go to prison or jail. I'll deal with it because somebody died.

Lisa Glaza

Nothing would be enough...probably best to be in prison for life.

Frank Gordon

While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads.

Frank Morgan

It can save your life, not just keep you out of prison. It can literally save your life.

Bryan Nissen

He's used to being out in the open, free to do. It wasn't like going to high school. This is only my opinion, but you're put in a dorm and you're restricted; it was almost like being in a prison.

James Nichols

So far, conditions in the field are very good. All those GAM members that have been released from prison have been granted amnesty by the government.

Sofyan Djalil

The inescapable conclusion that some could draw here is that, after a certain period of time, when the reporter is fed up with being in prison, she will make a concession. I'm not saying that's what happened here. But that's the appearance.

Jane Kirtley

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Robert M. Hutchins

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Barry Pepper

I didn't want to go, because I'd been in prison.

James Helton

If they do a crime here, there's a pretty good chance they're going to prison.

Leo Miller

I'd rather see a park than a prison or homes. I particularly don't want the access. It does change the character of the community.

John Carmack

Go back in any news archive and look at the men who have been freed from prison, look at the men that have been taken off death row. Mistakes happen. Bad directions are taken by district attorneys; police make mistakes. It happens all the time: False accusation is commonplace.

Kerry Sutton

I oppose the prison and rezoning for the purpose of a prison.

Tom Curtis

The victims wanted closure. They wanted him to accept responsibility for his actions. They wanted him to go to prison as soon as possible.

Warren Diepraam

It's insanity. These are rank amateurs and there is no legally binding law on these guys as far as I could tell. Why did they let them in the prison?

Robert Baer

The autocratic government has turned all of Bangladesh into a prison.

Tofayel Ahmed

Polk County hasn't done one thing about this guy since he got out of prison. I'm doing case management, not them.

Marilyn Callahan

Michael died just after his one-year anniversary (in prison). He was in poor health and was actually transferred outside the hospital (to another facility) the day that he died.

Linda Foglia

Spend every minute of the rest of his natural life in prison without seeing the light of day.

Keith Henderson

It's important that the governor's office communicate with the prison guards because of the role they play in the system.

Adam Mendelsohn

In prison he was suffering.

Peter Carlisle

I still love her. I'm going to get married to her one way or another — in Folsom prison if I have to.

Lonnie Causey

The money here is not huge, but we want to get the word out that if you steal from relief organizations you are going to get caught and go to prison.

Robert Morgenthau

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

We got a lot of bad publicity over that case, certainly, but Prison Health Services did a lot of things to address those issues.

David Parrish

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

Our family's position now is any time he comes up for parole we will be at every parole board meeting to make sure he stays in prison where he belongs.

Joan Robinson

They're stuck there, they can't go to another town, they can't walk out. They're stuck with the person causing the problems. The people in prison are convicted felons so you know they're inclined to do things like this.

Randy Yarbrough

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in prison for somebody else's act.

Derek King

It's unacceptable to him that these individuals are together in federal prison.

Julie Soderlund

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

(Milosevic) had really quite extraordinary comforts given that he was in prison.

Richard Goldstone

Prison is a place where grown men have gone insane. It is a place where men have been killed and where some have even killed themselves. Prison is hell. This I know, ... Life in Prison.

Stanley Williams

If you are thrown out of drug court, you are automatically facing 2 1/3 to 4 years in state prison.

Carl Becker

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?

Cris Collinsworth

A lot of our music is focused on searching for spirituality and on the man holding us down. 'My Own Prison' is a good name for the album because it was about us trying to break out of it.

Mark Tremonti

Today, we have victory over Roger Bentley. He will go to prison, and he will never be able to harm another child ever again.

Teresa Gage

We started the year with 3,075 adult inmates in our system, and by year's end, that number had grown to 3,408, an increase of nearly 11 percent. This follows back-to-back fiscal years when the average daily count of the prison population grew by less than 4 percent each year.

Tim Reisch

It was sufficient to charge Page with two second-degree felonies punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Chris Trenkmann

That childhood may indicate that the more appropriate sentence is life in prison without parole as opposed to the death penalty.

George Lepley

You don't lose all your rights in prison.

Oscar Michelen

Prison has helped him become a better Muslim. He is a Malcolm X with a softer tone.

Shakeel Syed

The seven-year prison sentence is not that great, but it's not out of the ballpark for sentences in Mississippi.

Larry Knight

We will continue to fight as long as he remains in prison.

Laura Pollan

This is no cell search. What is this? Prison justice.

Maj. Christopher Graveline

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Patrick Mcgoohan

This guy is looking at life in prison.

William Conlon

It's been hard, but I'm glad it's over and hope that everything goes the way it's supposed to and he does go to prison.

Taryn Thompson

Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage;/ Minds innocent and quiet take/ That for an hermitage.

Richard Lovelace

We had fought so that he would stay in prison, ... What I hope is that this sick man doesn't turn out to be healthy.

Serge Klarsfeld

(I want him to be sentenced to) life in prison. I don't want the death penalty. I want him to live to be an old man in prison and I want him to fear for his life every day, just as Julie feared for hers.

Peggy White

We have a farm there. The farm is not maintained properly, because we don't have (enough) people. So we can hand it over to them as an open prison and they can work there and we can get vegetables.

Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe

In the case of Central America, prison without trial has become the rule, not the exception.

Luis Ramirez

The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make prison visits.

Steve Hiltz

There's no real reason for them to grant early parole, because it's a political risk. There's no expectation of them looking at prison growth as an incentive.

Christie Donner

He has been moved to the prison hospital ... suffering from a high level of acetone in his blood and urine, which eventually leads to a coma and threatens his life.

Gameela Ismail

It's obviously a learning experience for the governor, but it's also a chance for the DOD to learn how the state corrections facilities are run. It's an opportunity for them to learn how we run our prison system.

Alice Stewart

We can bring jobs to Indiantown. We can bring jobs to Okeechobee. We can give people in Clewiston the opportunity to do something more than to look forward to the next prison they build.

Tim Mahoney

We have received up to five calls a day, asking when I'm getting out of prison. It's embarrassing and it's been tough. My kids will one day take over this business and they have to answer questions like that.

Frank Fortner

We're not worried about prison. That's the least of our worries.

Kevin Boyle

People go to jail now for what used to be considered a lesser crime, ... Eighteen months is more time than some violent criminals get in state prison.

Orin Snyder

Jon, you deprived the world of one of the finest. I hope, as you spend the next 50 years in prison, I hope you think about that.

Leroy Graham

She's served the most onerous part of her sentence. Home confinement isn't great, but at least she's out of prison.

Douglas Berman

Mr. Hunter spent four years in prison for potential illegal and unethical conduct from the district attorney's office. He should not be held in jail because the DA's office just doesn't get it.

Cheryl Coleman

What saddens us is that, even though we got the conviction, the person's still out. Hopefully this will all be remedied by finding him and putting him in prison where he belongs.

Randy Means

He is in high spirits. Obviously he sounded a lot more optimistic than when I saw him in prison a year and a half ago.

Dan Mcteague

I think the parole board is acting irresponsibly and outrageously. The doctor in the prison keeps telling us, 'What can I do to get him out? He shouldn't be in here.

Mayer Morganroth

Good luck trying to collect these fines. It's a start, but the prospect of prison time would probably be more effective.

Ira Mehlman

I don't think that he's going to make it in there (prison) because of what he did.

Taryn Thompson

In prison, violence is like an active volcano -- it can erupt at any time. Violence can come from someone you hardly know, or even from someone who is very close to you. You can have a friend today, and tomorrow he can become your No. 1 enemy. It's crazy in here, ... Life in Prison.

Stanley Williams

It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to keep people out of prison.

Landon Adams

After all, 88 percent of the Americans polled by MSNBC News said Dr. Kevorkian should be freed from prison.

Mayer Morganroth

We stayed with the prison bus, and once we were in New Orleans, we never saw any cops.

John Tucker

He didn't want to go to prison for 10 years, so life is enough.

Tracy Havlicek

For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates lower than Missouri, which imposes the sentence on child offenders far more frequently, ... the harshest prison sentence possible.

Alison Parker

I think the judge has leeway from zero time in prison to life.

Robert Udell

They don't get to go outside [work outside the prison fences without constant supervision ] anymore.

Dina Tyler

He called her when he was alone and told her he was going to prison for a long time and the police had a lot of evidence on him.

Gerry Harrington

It breaks my heart that she went to federal prison. This lady was so sick, so frail. It just breaks my heart.

Casey Looze

Clearly, if we don't ... make a difference, if we don't expose kids to a number of opportunities are we creating a situation that won't change? And are we losing any of these kids who may go into the prison system or may tax society in other ways?

Jeanne Collins

It was a constant worry would I spend the rest of my life in prison, would I die in prison.

Michael Hicks

I think it starts at the very top with the elected officials, goes to the appointed officials, goes to the Department of Criminal Justice ... and down to the prison employees who were very lax that day.

Jayne Hawkins

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

[Those are] three things I have experience with or three things that affect me a lot, ... Love is something that's always on my mind. I taught creative writing at a prison for a few years [and] I love exploring.

Davy Rothbart

On April 24 the ruling will be handed to the prison authorities, which will have ten days to appeal.

Natalya Terekhova

We intend, if this person is convicted, to seek significant prison time.

Tandra Simonton

It was the first play we were ever involved in together, ... and, because it was concerned with the condition of French convicts, we performed it - we began to perform it - in front of a French prison. It lasted for precisely four minutes because the police arrived and closed it down.

Helene Cixous

Words can't express it. I was given a new chance at life. If it wasn't for the drug court program I'd be in prison.

Bryan Nissen

This judge had the integrity ... to tell the president of the United States, 'You're not touching that prison.' .

Paul Bergrin

Women do not give up their reproductive rights when they are in prison. Her sentence does not include the loss of her reproductive rights.

Brenda Jones

Michael should have been released for that crime long ago. But even though he's on heavy psychotropic medication, Michael has never been able to adjust to prison life.

Fran Quigley

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Denise Moore

Just set aside Downey's celebrity. The reality is there are just so many beds available in the California Department of Corrections, ... It doesn't make sense for us to send someone like Downey to prison. The ultimate goal is to help him overcome his addiction.

Terry Thornton

He thought he was going to be cleaning in a prison.

Craig Kausen

They're used in every prison in California.

Lance Corcoran

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My patients call that the prison of positive thinking. There is no truth at all to the idea that if you get sad, angry or frightened about cancer that you're giving in to it and allowing the cancer to grow.

David Spiegel

I've been inside the prison. I've seen what's happening to these detainees.

Thomas Bock

His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.

Paul éluard

When I left prison almost two years ago, I hoped that I could start my life anew again, ... And I'm now of the belief that I may never be able to do so. I just do not know what it's going to take to make this matter end.

Webb Hubbell

[The lyrics to] You Give Love a Bad Name ... An angel's smile is what you sell/ You promise me heaven, then put me through hell/ Chains of love got a hold on me/ When passion's a prison, you can't break free...Shot through the heart/ And you're to blame/ You give love a bad name...

Bernie Ebbers

They were going to put him in prison because he couldn't post bail but he ended up living with Donald until they could post bail, ... [Brown] was afraid that if he was put into the general prison population that it would be an experience for the worse. That took a lot of commitment and dedication.

Kevin Duffy

What we saw here crossed all boundaries. Everybody who was now on the roof will be arrested and put in prison.

Dan Harel

It's like being in a prison, and we just wait.

Melinda Shiraki

If you simply want to focus on prison, you're going backward.

Thomas Bergstrom

I think he needs to go (to prison) and stay there until he dies. I think, really, sex offenders can't be cured, they can only be contained. That's what I've been taught.

John Connor

I was horrified at what I saw going on in the prison system. People were serving life terms for crimes they didn't commit. Lives were wasting away.

Robin Sohnen

As a matter of fact, (Mexico's) population law does include prison terms for illegally entering the country ... and this is something that has been the subject of constant complaints.

Mauricio Farah

A verdict of guilty means that Mr. Wilson spends the rest of his life in prison. He dies there.

Louis Jordan

The prison authorities said he is not allowed to send written papers outside the prison anymore. There is a decision to stop him from writing.

Gameela Ismail

I don't think he'll go to prison. He'll never make it there.

Natalie Henderson

Inmates from other countries are not introducing tuberculosis into the Colorado prison system.

Walt Ahrens

It is a lot cheaper to educate a child than to pay for them to go to prison.

Robert Cywinski

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

Merle Haggard

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

Will Rogers

She [Rice] made it clear that she didn't want Gaza to become a large prison, but what we see now is that Gaza is a large prison.

Diana Buttu

Otherwise, she would have died in a Florida state prison.

Kepler Funk

Their notoriety is going to play a factor in this as well. We have to take into account their safety in prison.

Linda Foglia

It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison . . . and that's not for business people.

Auday Arabo

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

Peter Benenson

The book deals mostly with our lives in prison, those political detainees arrested together with me, and others following that.

Said Zahari

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Mitchell Burgess

She was really instrumental in getting them out of prison.

Daniel Carrera

Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.

Falun Gong

He basically got in front of her and she popped him upside the face. It's a mother taking care of her child. If you're a decent parent at all, you're going to try to rectify the situation so your kid doesn't end up in prison.

Dennis Scheib

Minor damage was caused to the prison compound wall and to the house in which our two soldiers were held.

John Lorimer

We think we can convince a jury that a woman with her reputation, a woman who has done the things she has done, should go to prison.

Bill Alexander

He mainly called because he wanted to talk to me about the allegations about his homosexual affair supposedly that a prison inmate was making against him. He was upset by what that was doing, the impact it has having on his son.

Jim Defede

He is exhausted and would die in prison if he stays in captivity another year.

Badia Aref

The Prison Service must now ensure that implementation of plans for sufficient activity places do not face delays or cutbacks.

Anne Owers

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Ambrose Bierce

It should be longer, he should be in prison until he dies.

Ian Huntley

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

Daniel Drew

This is the most in-depth study done within the U.S. prison system on HIV transmission, making it a landmark study.

Jeff Graham

If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.

Joe Martin

Basically, I built a prison around myself. It's my own doing. I made that decision.

Thomas Brinkman

Anyone who accessed these images would be guilty of an offence punishable by up to three years in prison.

Paul Goggins

Many (inmates) come from very, very dysfunctional homes. We think we can provide some life skills that they can master in prison and then they can use them on the outside. They don't learn that stuff so they don't have anything to fall back on.

Marcia Sinkovitz

You are talking about a prison population of hundreds who have decided that with no conceivable change in their future that they just don't care to live anymore, or they are going to make a statement in dying.

Jumana Musa

She would like to see more potential prison time, but I think she understands why we did what we did.

Lorrain Croy

Mr. Williams wants out of prison. This has nothing to do with redemption.

John Monaghan

I think he should be in prison the rest of his life without parole. I don't know how he can live with himself. I couldn't, and I just hope he realizes the people he's hurt, and then I hope justice comes through to make him pay for it.

Cindy Morgan

There's obviously something wrong with him and it's hard not to feel a little bit sorry for him. That doesn't change my feelings that I think he should die in prison and it looks like that's going to happen.

Tony Case

I've been doing prison monitoring for many years, and the consistency of the complaints indicates that there was a serious problem at Jena, ... Just about every inmate who was interviewed said they saw someone else abused, or were abused themselves.

Jamie Fellner

It has a very prison-like look, ... It also has those fields and cows. It sure is beautiful. It looks like an exhibition hall.

Douglas Mcgrath

Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison.

Andy Borowitz

A release order is to be given to the prison administration for the defendants whose names have been mentioned.

Adil Ahmed

The goal of the government was to get all the leaders of the Black Panther Party in jail so that they could be killed systematically through prison violence, and that way they could stop what was a very powerful and evolving movement.

James Cromwell

It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's interests.

Hassan Asfour

He died and the guard threw him from the window. Pregnant women gave birth in the prison. Their babies died.

Ahmed Hassan

Mr. White really wants to put all of this behind him and is looking forward to moving forward with his life when he gets out of prison.

Daniel Taylor

He does not want to be here. He wants to head back as prison as soon as possible.

Greg Denue

My son used to talk about young black men going to prison all the time in his music.

Afeni Shakur

Oh you bet I will. I'll stand there until he rots. If he lasts, if he can take it, prison is a tough place, I hear.

Glenn Heyes

(My) relief is tempered by the fact our colleague ... remains in prison. I hope that President Milosevic will see fit to exercise the same humanity he has exercised for us in granting clemency.

Peter Wallace

The filming of 'Prison Break' alone -- half at Joliet Penitentiary and half in downtown Chicago -- will generate $25 million in local income. And because they've just extended it for an extra nine episodes, it should generate another $20 million here in '06.

Brenda Sexton

This entire family is going to suffer. There's a one year old girl that will never really know her mother, or her aunt. They've got to live with that for the rest of their lives. So why should that person be put to death, and his worries will be over. Let him sit there and suffer in prison.

Michael Ferguson

He (Bashir) did not get the remission at all. I have just called him and he said that he had received the news from the prison.

Lutfi Hakim

Yeah (hiding) was the wrong thing to do. But when you've been in prison, you don't want to go back.

Nikki Blais

Union members understand that MRSA is everywhere, but here in the prison it has become an epidemic.

David Morales

He's never been arrested for anything in his life. He's never seen a state prison and he's 23 years old.

Robert Griffin

I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career.

Gary Glitter

It's an open-air prison. (Israelis) still control everything regarding the population.

Michael Tarazi

Despite a six-fold expansion in the prison system after 1980, crime hadn't gone down much. The frustration wasn't like the first time you put your 75 cents in the machine and nothing came out. This was like after you've been kicking the machine for 10 years with nothing happening.

Franklin Zimring

A few people at our Church left after differences. They are using some girls to get the pastor thrown in prison.

Sunder Rajan

He said, I don't want to do this, but i don't want to go back to prison.

Linda Champion

Mr. Fountain is looking at a maximum of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for the simple act of possessing that firearm, having been convicted previously of a felony.

Don Degabrielle

They feel that they're in a prison in their own home because any little thing is cause for them to get threats.

Lydia Munoz

We let him know that we understood his anger. But we also reminded him that his family needs him to be a pillar, to be their strength. And he can't do that if he goes back to prison.

Valerie King

The government would have to give up the ghost on seeking the death penalty, the sentence being life in an institution instead of in jail [with the rest of the prison population] without the possibility of parole, ... That's the only guilty plea that would be acceptable.

Andrew Napolitano

I think those convicted of murder should be behind bars and stay there, ... Essentially, that's what the public expects, for them to be behind bars. I think that's something the prison commissioner, Mr. (Donal) Campbell, needs to explain.

Tom Butler

We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.

Mark Allison

It is the sentence of this court that you be taken from this court to a prison and then to a place of execution where you will be hanged.

Michael Scott

The prison determines what happened in the prison, inside the cell.

Tom Jenkins

That is a message to all convicted sexual offenders. You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this type of prison term.

Lori Wada

She's always trying to help somebody. I've been sent to jail, then prison, got out and she put me right to work.

Kelly Scott

I would say Porridge is one of the greatest British sitcoms ever made. It dictated the way we see prison.

Steve Armstrong

Without groups like the Innocence Project, people like Dale would sit in prison. It restores my faith in the judicial system.

Richard Helmig

It's a minority at the prison, ... You're only talking about that small amount of people who abuse it and ruin it for everybody.

John Walton

I don't think we would have the kind of prison population now and what happens in this country with the gangs if the Panthers had been allowed to continue what they decided to do, which was basically empower black communities to take back their self control ... and reestablish the dignity of being a black person in this country.

James Cromwell

The victim and her mother are begging for no prison.

Larry Warner

It's not a matter of whether or not I'm for the death penalty or whether I think he should get life in prison.

Christie Coombs

In corrections, you're working in a jail setting, prison setting, community setting, probation and parole.

Barb Jascor

We fully expect Steven Avery to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Mike Halbach

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Belle Boyd

He was possibly mentally ill, though he had never been diagnosed, inside or outside of prison. He was angry, abusive and hostile for a long while.

Cheryl Wheeler

In Europe, bankruptcy laws are designed to protect creditors. We're a nation founded by debtors, people who were trying to get away from debtors' prison.

Carl Steidtmann

You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this kind of prison term.

Lori Wada