I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
— John Bunyan
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
— Albert Camus
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.