The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
Bobby Scott

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.
Michael Vick

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
Serj Tankian

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Philip Zimbardo

The White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. Truman

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
Pat Brown

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

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey Newton

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
Wentworth Miller

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
Janis Karpinski

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Steve Buscemi