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Many a wise person has pondered the plight of the prisoner. From Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde to Fyodor
Dostoevsky, the issue of imprisonment has inspired many heartfelt remarks. The following quotes speak to our
intellect as well as our emotions. In a society that rushes to warehouse human lives, we urge you to slow down,
pause, and contemplate the unique reality of imprisonment. We hope you will find yourself thinking - perhaps
even feeling - that we can do better.
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Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
~Lil' Kim
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We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
~Janet Reno
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
~Lech Walesa
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Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
~Philip Kaufman
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
~Mike Tyson
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Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
~Tim Allen
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Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
~Jeffrey Archer
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Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
~Suge Knight
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The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is.
~John Casey
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One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
~Richard Cowan
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