Inmates Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.”

“Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.”

“Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story.”

“During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison.On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.”

“I miss it like an ex-con misses the other inmates.”

“The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.”

“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”