Quotes About Prison Inmates

#1. Hamsters. We have other names for them; rats, weasels, rodents, but with their fine, golden fur, round faces and whiskers, what they most look like are hamsters.

Craig Alanson

#2. Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

Joseph Prince

#3. If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

Craig Groeschel

#4. We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

Jimmy Carter

#5. If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems.

United States Dept. Of Education

#6. I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

Danny Trejo

#7. 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.

Colin Quinn

#8. Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.

Otto Von Bismarck

#9. A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Changi became my university instead of my prison ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

James Clavell

#11. I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.

Selenis Leyva

#12. Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Eric Schlosser

#14. How can this be real?" I whispered. "I mean you ... you ... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would ... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?"
"Try and stop me.

Serra Elinsen

#15. I wouldn't be satisfied simply escaping from my prison of silence; I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. Sometimes I get that way. It's a surprisingly useful frame of mind.

Scott Adams

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

Kim Coates

#17. 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!

Joel McHale

#18. Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.

Garry Disher

#19. Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn't placed too much importance on that.

Paula Altenburg

#20. Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.

Stephen Richards

#21. Escape was out of the question. The atmosphere outside the dome was cyanide, and Earth was 446,120,000,000,000,000 miles away.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

Daniel Quinn

#23. Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

Isabel Paterson

#24. 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

#25. The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular fashion because those instances of egregious human cruelty were committed for the most part by baptized Christians.

James Lee Burke

#26. 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

#27. When a man meets the woman with whom he is destined to share his life, he knows.

P.O. Dixon

#28. We're not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings.

Keri Lake