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.
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can’t. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I’d be struck by the fact that religious beliefs were sometimes transformative, sometimes a motivation for violence.
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.
Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.
I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn’t know what to do, so I tried stand-up.
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There’s never a moment where we say, ‘OK, well, prison hasn’t worked, so we’re not going to try that again.’
I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a life of service.
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.
One of the things I love about ‘Orange’ is I think we bring to light a lot of topics that, particularly in terms of prison, might go untalked about.
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
I don’t want to go to prison… but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
On ‘Prison Break,’ I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!
Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.
I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He’s in prison in the U.S. for life, so it’s about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.
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.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don’t do that in a lot of cases.
Hydration is everything. Think of this: your muscles are 70-plus percent water – how are you not drinking water during a workout? I get the whole, ‘Let’s challenge ourselves; let’s do that prison, tough guy thing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re underperforming.
I did get a really weird fan letter from a bloke in prison. I think it was when I was doing ‘Fat Friends.’ He said he’d be happy to do an exercise routine for me, to go through a fitness regime for me. I didn’t take him up on the offer… dunno why?!
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
When people hear the term ‘political prisoner,’ especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they’re aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.
By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Look at the opening sequence of ‘The Blues Brothers,’ which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
Galileo wasn’t put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn’t wish to see.
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‘I know.’ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
When I was released from prison 15 years ago, I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to start my life over.
On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
There are far too many people in prison with poorly understood disability, particularly cognitive and mental disabilities. We cannot tolerate a system that just processes people rather than a system that fairly administers justice.
I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.
I understood law enforcement in such a way that I was able to get a law enforcement officer, a veteran, to actually come clean and admit fault, even though he was facing prison time.
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.
Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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.
I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.
If it wasn’t for prison, I was in a bad way.
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
I watch box sets. I worked my way through ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Prison Break.’
Even though wrestling is getting more popular – wrestling being more popular than it was five years ago is like being the nicest guy in prison, it’s not a huge compliment, but it’s still taking place.
Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after he was released from prison, we joined my mother in a little town in the mountains of Utah. It was quite a change from my hometown of Shanghai, a city of 25 million people.
None of my peers avoided prison. None of ’em.
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.
Nobody wants to get locked up, although ‘locked up’ is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.
I’m never going to get married again. Three strikes, you’re out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don’t I? I think you only get three.
I’ve shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward – there were definitely some creepy vibes there.
I felt very accomplished staying busy in prison.
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the ’70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.
