Jail Prison Quotes

#1. Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

Criss Jami

#2. The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

Richard Price

#3. Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Bobby Seale

#4. Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.

Anthony Liccione

#5. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#6. I love you he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.

Arzum Uzun

#7. Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

Hillary Clinton

#8. Whattaya mean you ain't no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Kenneth Eade

#9. Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there!

Deyth Banger

#10. Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other places. Yet ...

Samuel Johnson

#11. He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.

Ogden Nash

#12. The court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.

Barbara Deming

#13. Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Gary Goldstein

#14. I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?

Martijn Benders

#15. Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole ... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Mike Epps

#16. One in every fifteen people born in the United States in 2001 is expected to go to jail or prison; one in every three black male babies born in this century is expected to be incarcerated. We

Bryan Stevenson

#17. The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Criss Jami

#18. Whether I'm feeding the homeless, stopping by a high school to chat with teens, visiting a prison or local jail, I think that the greatest service you can give is yourself. To be able to help someone who is not in a position to help themselves or possibly ever repay you.

Raheem Devaughn

#19. In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Nelson Mandela

#20. I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

James McGreevey

#21. The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.

Chuck D

#22. Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population.

Bryan Stevenson

#23. I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

Frazier Glenn Miller

#24. Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Phil Ochs

#25. To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment.

Tracey Bond

#26. Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Coretta Scott King

#27. Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

Bill Hicks

#28. Rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television

Norman Mailer

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

Ambrose Bierce

#30. Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on.

Nelson Mandela

#31. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

Stephen Richards

#32. One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system - in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis)

Michelle Alexander

#33. During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

Tahir Shah

#34. There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

Michelle Alexander

#35. Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.

Marlon James

#36. I've only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.

Roman Payne

#37. Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

P. J. O'Rourke

#38. The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.

Bryan Stevenson

#39. Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.

Anton Chekhov

#40. As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

Asif Ali Zardari

#41. Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.

Ann Rule

#42. Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

Lil' Wayne

#43. When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

Stephen King

#44. On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Robert Anton Wilson

#45. I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.

Paul Beatty

#46. No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.

Stephen Richards

#47. That's the ironic thing about time, Doc. One the one hand, we don't have much of it for this, but it's all I have in here.

Kenneth Eade

#48. Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

Steven Magee

#49. The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims.

Deyth Banger

#50. I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

#51. A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world ... jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

Munia Khan

#52. Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit