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They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.Raegan Butcher
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There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.Raegan Butcher
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Bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell.Raegan Butcher
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Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.Paul W. Silver
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We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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And in a nasty war, where's the best place to be? Apart from on the moon, o' course? No one?" Slowly, Jade raised a hand." Go on, then, " said the sergeant." In the army, sarge, " said the troll. "'cos.." She began to count on her fingers. "One, you got weapons an' armour an' dat. Two, you are surrounded by other armed men. Er.. Many, youse gettin' paid and gettin' better grub than the people in Civilian Street. Er.. Lots, if'n you gives up, you getting taken pris'ner and dere's rules about that like Not Kicking Pris'ners Inna Head and stuff, 'cos if you kick their pris'ners inna head they'll kick your pris'ners inna head so dat's, like, you're kickin' your own head, but dere's no rule say you can't kick enemy civilians inna head. There's other stuff too, but I ran outa numbers.Terry Pratchett
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Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.Unknown
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The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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They say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access to computers. A felicitous injustice for me. The nicest reader letters I've received– also the only reader letters I've received– have come from prisoners. Maybe we're all prisoners? In our lives, our habits, our relationships?Rivka Galchen
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Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party.Kat Kaelin
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From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned.Steve Maraboli
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Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt others Ritual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.Laurie Matthew
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Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.Shannon L. Alder
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People with anxiety and trust issues find themselves drawn to people of consistency because they feel safe with someone who is predictable. However, that doesn’t cure their problem. The anxious person still remains the same because anxiety is a wave that crashes on the shore every time an unpredictable circumstance challenges their expectations and comfort zone.Shannon L. Alder
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One way or another, we’re all prisoners.Eliza Granville
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Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.Debasish Mridha
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SpyThough at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-ending battle to see who will survive amid so much bloodshed, I don't need to fight anymore, only wait for people I've never met to decide who I am.Paulo Coelho
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Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.Ellen J. Barrier
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They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.Michael Crichton
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Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.Pope Benedict XVI
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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
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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
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Rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevisionNorman Mailer
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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 irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.Ellen DeGeneres
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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, slept in the same beds, did the same back-breaking work. But they died and I lived. Do you know why?” “You were free.” “I was free. Milton was right…the mind is its own place. I was never a prisoner. Not then, not now. .Louise Penny
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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 foremost through the floor into an empty space He does not sit with silent men who watch him night and day Who watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to pray Who watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey .Oscar Wilde
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You could cut...all thatMel Bossa
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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, " Grimm said. "I've seen that place. You might as well tie a noose around their necks and stand them on blocks of ice, if you want them to die a slow death. It will be cleaner."" I'm not sure why this concerns you, Captain, " Albion said." Because they surrendered to me, " Grimm said. "They gave me their parole, sir. They could have fought on with no real chance of victory, and it would have been bloody. But that surrender saved blood and lives of Albions and Aurorans alike. I will not see Captain Castillo repaid with such churlish treatment. .Jim Butcher
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You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prisonBangambiki Habyarimana
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They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.Leo Tolstoy
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I was always mortified. Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?Janet Fitch
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FREEDOM IS WHERE I AM NOT A PRISONER CARRYING A BAGGAGE OF OTHERS RULES.Merlin8thomas
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Prison is like high school with knives.Raegan Butcher
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IN OUR CELLSThey keep us in our cells For a long time... And, if we get out, We lug them with us on our shoulders, Like a porter with a chest of goods.Visar Zhiti
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Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.(from "Gratitude")Visar Zhiti
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Murderers – serving life sentences – were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands while they took their last breath. It was the other side of death, not the one at the end of a sudden muzzle flash, but the slow and wrenching kind, leaving plenty of time for hard reflection.Lisa R. Cohen
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We call our system the Department of Corrections, or simply Corrections, but correcting or any notion of rehabilitation has been largely thrown to the wayside in favor of punitive action through the revocation of selfhood.Erika Camplin
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Much of the way food has been shaped and formed in prisons is due to the cultural thought about prisoners in general, and how they should be treated by society and by the state. Food in prison is a reflection of culture and cultural thinking about criminal justice and reform.Erika Camplin
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Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.Nelson Mandela
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If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.Unknown