Quotes about Incarceration

At first the solution was to build more prisons and cram more people into them, but that soon became prohibitively expensive. (Here Ed flicks through a few more slides.) Not only that, it resulted in platoons of prison graduates with professional-grade criminal skills they were more than willing to exercise once they were back in the outside world.

This room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.

Where I a pris'ner chain'd, scarce freely drawThe air imprison'd also, close and damp,Unwholsome draught; but here I feel amends,The breath of heav'n fresh blowing, pure and sweet,With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.Milton'sSampson Agonistes.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.