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jobs, and, if you don't want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. ... Prisons are a profitable business. The are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? they certainly aren't planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government's genocidal war against Black and Third World people. ~ <a href="/wiki/Assata_Shakur" title="Assata Shakur">Assata Shakur</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prison.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Prison.jpg/220px-Prison.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Prison.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="194" /></a><figcaption>The degree of <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> can be judged by entering its prisons. ~ <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg/220px-Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg/330px-Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg/440px-Prison_Black_Dolphin_-_entrance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="899" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. ~ <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif/220px-Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif/330px-Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif/440px-Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif 2x" data-file-width="462" data-file-height="583" /></a><figcaption>Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation. ~ <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg/220px-Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg/330px-Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg/440px-Greensville_Correctional_Center_USGS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>The pigs had a tier of handpicked proxy prisoners, whom they used to violently suppress those who got out of line. ~ <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rashid_Johnson" title="Kevin Rashid Johnson">Kevin Rashid Johnson</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison,_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison%2C_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg/220px-Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison%2C_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison%2C_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg/330px-Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison%2C_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison%2C_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg/440px-Allied_prisoners_of_war_after_the_liberation_of_Changi_Prison%2C_Singapore_-_c._1945.jpg 2x" data-file-width="971" data-file-height="939" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changi_Prison" class="extiw" title="w:Changi Prison">Changi</a> became my <a href="/wiki/University" class="mw-redirect" title="University">university</a> instead of my prison. … Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> — the high and the low roads. ~ <a href="/wiki/James_Clavell" title="James Clavell">James Clavell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:End_of_the_world_prison.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/End_of_the_world_prison.jpg/220px-End_of_the_world_prison.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/End_of_the_world_prison.jpg/330px-End_of_the_world_prison.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/End_of_the_world_prison.jpg/440px-End_of_the_world_prison.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? ~ <a href="/wiki/Michel_Foucault" title="Michel Foucault">Michel Foucault</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg/220px-Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg/330px-Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg/440px-Hope_in_a_Prison_of_Despair.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="796" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Stone" title="Stone">Stone</a> walls do not a prison make,<br /> Nor iron bars a cage,<br /><a href="/wiki/Minds" class="mw-redirect" title="Minds">Minds</a> <a href="/wiki/Innocent" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent">innocent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quiet" class="mw-redirect" title="Quiet">quiet</a> take<br />That for an hermitage. ~ <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lovelace" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg/220px-Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="339" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg/330px-Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg/440px-Nikolaj_Alexandrowitsch_Jaroschenko_002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1256" data-file-height="1936" /></a><figcaption>If a captive <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> is unaware of being in prison, it is <a href="/wiki/Living" title="Living">living</a> in <a href="/wiki/Error" title="Error">error</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Simone_Weil" title="Simone Weil">Simone Weil</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>A <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/prison" class="extiw" title="w:prison">prison</a></b>, <b>correctional facility</b>, <b>penitentiary</b>, <b>gaol</b> (Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales), or <b>jail</b> is a facility in which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inmate" class="extiw" title="w:inmate">inmates</a> are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion" class="extiw" title="w:Coercion">forcibly</a> confined and denied a variety of <a href="/wiki/Freedoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedoms">freedoms</a> under the authority of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)" class="extiw" title="w:State (polity)">the state</a> as a form of <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a>. The most common use of prisons is as part of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/criminal_justice" class="extiw" title="w:criminal justice">criminal justice</a> system, in which individuals officially charged with or convicted of crimes are confined to a jail or prison until they are either brought to trial to determine their guilt or complete the period of incarceration they were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(law)" class="extiw" title="w:Sentence (law)">sentenced</a> to after being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_(law)" class="extiw" title="w:Guilt (law)">found guilty</a> at their trial. </p><p>In some legal systems some of these terms have distinct meanings. For instance, in the United States, "jail" and "prison" refer to separate levels of incarceration; generally speaking, jails are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)" class="extiw" title="w:County (United States)">county</a> or city-administrated institutions which house both inmates awaiting trial on the local level and convicted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor" class="extiw" title="w:Misdemeanor">misdemeanants</a> serving a term of one year or less, while prisons are state or federal facilities housing convicted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony" class="extiw" title="w:Felony">felons</a> serving a term of more than one year. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A">A</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>At the risk of quoting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephistopheles" class="extiw" title="w:Mephistopheles">Mephistopheles</a> I repeat: Welcome to <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a>. A hell erected and maintained by <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a>-<a href="/wiki/Governments" class="mw-redirect" title="Governments">governments</a>, and blessed by black robed <a href="/wiki/Judges" title="Judges">judges</a>.</b> A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal" title="Mumia Abu-Jamal">Mumia Abu-Jamal</a>, <i>All Things Censored</i> (2001, Seven Stories Press), pp. 55-56</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="B">B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that --</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>"Stone walls do not a prison make,"</dd></dl></dd> <dd>but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>To say I was shocked, stunned, or humiliated on entering the penitentiary would not be the truth. It would not be true in nine cases out of any ten. It would be true if a man were picked up on the street and taken directly to a penitentiary, but that isn't done He is first thrown into a dirty, lousy, foul-smelling cell in some city prison, sometimes with an awful beating in the bargain, and after two or three days of that nothing in the world can chock, stun, or humiliate him. He is actually happy to get removed to a county jail where he can perhaps get rid of the vermin and wash his body. By that time, convicted, and sentenced, he has learned from other prisoners just what the penitentiary is like and just what to do and what to expect. You start doing time the minute the handcuffs are on your wrists. The first day you are locked up is the hardest, and the last day the easiest. There comes a feeling of helplessness when the prison gates wallow you up - cut you off from the sunshine and flowers out in the world - but that feeling soon wears away if you have guts. Some men despair. I am sure I did not. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Black_(author)" title="Jack Black (author)">Jack Black (author)</a>, <i>You Can't Win</i> (1926)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C">C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison (November 21, 1943); Churchill, <i>Closing the Ring</i> (vol. 5 of The Second World War; 1951), p. 679.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changi_Prison" class="extiw" title="w:Changi Prison">Changi</a> became my <a href="/wiki/University" class="mw-redirect" title="University">university</a> instead of my prison.</b> … Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> — the high and the low roads. <b>I studied and absorbed everything I could from <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Clavell" title="James Clavell">James Clavell</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E4D61138F93BA3575AC0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all">"James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes in <i>The New York Times</i> (8 September 1994)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every <a href="/wiki/Honest" class="mw-redirect" title="Honest">honest</a> man in prison is tenfold more dangerous than <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a> burning near fire-damp. The majesty of <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> is defiled when the <a href="/wiki/Innocent" class="mw-redirect" title="Innocent">innocent</a> are punished deliberately with the <a href="/wiki/Guilty" class="mw-redirect" title="Guilty">guilty</a>. <ul><li>Conway, Moncure D. (1878). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858042437347&view=1up&seq=9">“Liberty and Morality: A Discourse given at the South Place Chapel, Finsbury”</a>. Freethought Publishing Co., pp.12-13</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="D">D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>While there is a soul in prison, I am not free. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Eugene V. Debs</a>, Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act, September 18, 1918</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pickwick_Papers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pickwick Papers">Pickwick Papers</a></i> (1836), Chapter XL</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i>Little Dorrit</i>, book 1, chapter 1 (1855), p. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Dead" class="extiw" title="w:The House of the Dead">The House of the Dead</a></i> (1861); reported as unverified in <i>Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations</i> (1989).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="E">E</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreau's aunt]—"Henry, why are you here?" Waldo, why are you not here? <ul><li>Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> and Henry David Thoreau. Arthur Samuel Jones, <i>Thoreau's Incarceration [As Told by His Jailer]</i>, p. 15 (1962). This exchange was supposed to have taken place on July 23 or 24, 1846, in the Concord, Massachusetts, jail where Thoreau was placed for nonpayment of poll taxes. There are many versions of this story, but Thoreau's account does not mention a visit by Emerson, in his <i>Reform Papers</i>, ed. Wendell Glick (1973), p. 79–84, so it is probably apocryphal.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="F">F</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The world’s prison population is estimated at around 11 million with rates of incarceration ranging from 698 per 100,000 population in the United States to as low as 16 per 100,000 in the Central African Republic. In the US, there are approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated, representing an estimated 24% of the world’s proportion of incarcerated individuals. Estimates as of mid-May 2020 in the US demonstrate that state jails hold 1,230,000 individuals, 625,000 are detained in local jails, and 225,000 in federal jails and prisons. Mass incarceration policies have important collateral damage to prisoners, their <a href="/wiki/Families" class="mw-redirect" title="Families">families</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities">communities</a>. Investing in social capital, community-building practices, public safety strategies, and violence prevention initiatives represent a more cost-effective approach. In communities with steady economic and social breakdown, many groups including <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African Americans</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanic_Americans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hispanic Americans (page does not exist)">Hispanic Americans</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people" class="extiw" title="w:White people">white</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class" class="extiw" title="w:Working class">working class</a> without a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%E2%80%99s_degree" class="extiw" title="w:Bachelor’s degree">bachelor’s degree</a> are caught in this web of compound and expanding disadvantage. Worldwide, in most settings, <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Urban&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Urban (page does not exist)">urban</a> communities experience the highest rates of both incarceration and recidivism. <ul><li>Carlos Franco-Paredes, Katherine Jankousky, Jonathan Schultz, Jessica Bernfeld, Kimberly Cullen, Nicolas G. Quan, Shelley Kon, Peter Hotez, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez, and Martin Krsak; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7307724/">“COVID-19 in jails and prisons: A neglected infection in a marginalized population”</a>, ‘’PLoS Negl Trop Dis.’’ 2020 Jun; 14(6): e0008409.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michel_Foucault" title="Michel Foucault">Michel Foucault</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_%26_Punish" class="extiw" title="w:Discipline & Punish">Discipline & Punish</a></i> (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 228</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I will go to prison. I will be in the Gazette. I will move to a meaner situation, or anything else that is necessary. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Godwin" class="extiw" title="w:William Godwin">William Godwin</a> letter to James Marshal. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0300105444"><i>William Godwin</i></a> by William H. Marshal pg. 277</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot <a href="/wiki/Speak" class="mw-redirect" title="Speak">speak</a> for themselves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Goodall" title="Jane Goodall">Jane Goodall</a> as reported in Janelle Rohr, <i>Animal rights: opposing viewpoints</i> (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, <i>Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe</i> (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://earthe.org/e/j/JaneGoodall/">quote honored on EarthE eco money</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Roy Tillman</b>: It's funny. Prison is the way the world should be. The natural order. No apology. Men separated by <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">race</a>, races stacked with the strong on top, you fuck the weak, you kill your rivals, sleep with one eye open. <ul><li>Roy Tillman as interpreted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hamm" class="extiw" title="w:Jon Hamm">Jon Hamm</a> in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisquik" class="extiw" title="w:Bisquik">Bisquik</a>", <i><a href="/wiki/Fargo_(TV_series)" title="Fargo (TV series)">Fargo</a></i>, (January 16, 2024); written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Hawley" class="extiw" title="w:Noah Hawley">Noah Hawley</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K">K</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Prisons are epicentres for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease" class="extiw" title="w:Infectious disease">infectious diseases</a> because of the higher background prevalence of infection, the higher levels of risk factors for infection, the unavoidable close contact in often overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and unsanitary facilities, and the poor access to health-care services relative to that in community settings. Infections can be transmitted between prisoners, staff and visitors, between prisons through transfers and staff cross-deployment, and to and from the community. <ul><li>Stuart A Kinner, Jesse T Young, Kathryn Snow, Louise Southalan, Daniel Lopez-Acuña, Carina Ferreira-Borges, and Éamonn O'Moore; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103922/">”Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19”</a>, <i>Lancet Public Health</i>. 2020 Apr; 5(4): e188–e189.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul of Tarsus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Hebrews" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Hebrews">Epistle to the Hebrews</a> 13:3</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J">J</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>What I was to encounter at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensville_Correctional_Center" class="extiw" title="w:Greensville Correctional Center">Greensville</a> defied anything that I’d expected. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police" class="extiw" title="w:Police">pigs</a> had a refined system and license for brutalizing prisoners. I was not to understand the magnitude of the situation until a few days after being there. The pigs had a tier of handpicked proxy prisoners, whom they used to violently suppress those who got out of line. The ringleader – I’ll call him Pumpkin – was a career con with a reputation for butchering other prisoners. He had a trustee job (all trustees were similarly selected). Pumpkin was allowed by the pigs to keep weapons on his person. Part of the mental terror game was that while he was out cleaning (everyone knew he was a pig hit man and stayed armed), the pigs would bring others out around him in handcuffs. ... The next day or so the pigs would put them on the exercise yard together, remove everyone’s handcuffs except the target’s (they’d put five to seven prisoners in each pen), and allow them to mob attack the still handcuffed target. Or if they wanted him butchered, he’d be unhandcuffed and left to contend unarmed against a knife-wielding Pumpkin. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rashid_Johnson" title="Kevin Rashid Johnson">Kevin Rashid Johnson</a>, <i>Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson</i> (2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L">L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The law of nations knows of no distinction of color</b>, and if an enemy of the United States should enslave and sell any captured persons of their army, it would be a case for the severest retaliation, if not redressed upon complaint. <ul><li><i>The Lieber Code of 1863</i>, United States Department of War.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Stone walls do not a prison make,<br /> Nor iron bars a cage,<br />Minds innocent and quiet take<br />That for an hermitage.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lovelace" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</a>, "To Althea, From Prison" (1642)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M">M</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">Happiness</a> is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/V_for_Vendetta" title="V for Vendetta">V for Vendetta</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I'm too pretty to go to jail. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Murphy_(political_consultant)" title="Mike Murphy (political consultant)">Mike Murphy</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy">"Debriefing Mike Murphy"</a> (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, <i>The Weekly Standard</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="O">O</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Show me a prison, show me a jail <br /> Show me a pris'ner whose face has grown pale</b> <br /> And I'll show you a young man <br /> With many reasons why <br /> <b>There but for fortune, go you or I.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Ochs" title="Phil Ochs">Phil Ochs</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_but_for_Fortune_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:There but for Fortune (song)">"There but for Fortune" (1963)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Over the past three decades, the number of prison inmates in the United States has increased by more than 600%, leaving it the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. During this time, incarceration has changed from a punishment reserved primarily for the most heinous offenders to a much greater range of crimes and a much larger segment of the population. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="" id="CITEREFDevah_Pager2025">Devah Pager (8 March 2025), <i>The Mark of a Criminal Record</i>, <b>108</b>, The American Journal of Sociology, pp. 937-975</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mark+of+a+Criminal+Record&rft.aulast=Devah+Pager&rft.au=Devah+Pager&rft.date=8+March+2025&rft.volume=108&rft.issue=5&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B937-975&rft.pub=The+American+Journal+of+Sociology&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Prison"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Doubles grilles à gros cloux,<br />Triples portes, forts verroux,<br /> Aux âmes vraiment méchantes<br />Vous représentez l'enfer:<br /> Mais aux âmes innocentes<br />Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.</i> <ul><li>Fast closed with double grills<br /> And triple gates—the cell<br /> To wicked souls is hell;<br /> But to a mind that's innocent<br /> 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pellisson" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Pellisson">Paul Pellisson</a>, written on the walls of his cell in the Bastile (c. 1661)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself. <ul><li>"Rust" Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey, <a href="/wiki/True_Detective_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="True Detective (TV series)">True Detective (TV series)</a>, <i>Haunted House</i>, written by Nic Pizzolatto</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For <a href="/wiki/Critics" class="mw-redirect" title="Critics">critics</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Criminal_justice" title="Criminal justice">criminal justice</a> system, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest" class="extiw" title="w:Arrest">arrest</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment" class="extiw" title="w:Imprisonment">imprisonment</a> rates for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people" class="extiw" title="w:Black people">blacks</a> and other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minority" class="extiw" title="w:Ethnic minority">minorities</a> suggest that the system discriminates against those groups. They argue, for example, that blacks, who make up 12 percent of the national population, could not possibly commit 48 percent of the crime: Yet that is exactly what arrest and imprisonment rates imply about black criminality. Defenders of the system argue that the arrest and imprisonment rates do not lie; the system simply reacts to the prevalence of crime in the black community. As we have noted repeatedly, prior research has not settled this controversy. For every study that finds discrimination in arrests, convictions, sentencing, prison treatment, or parole, another denies it. <ul><li>Joan Petersilia, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/127137NCJRS.pdf">"Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System"</a>, <i>National Institute of Corrections, Department of Justice</i>, (June 1983), p. 89.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Research on sentence patterns lends support to the contention that the system "values" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people" class="extiw" title="w:White people">whites</a> more than it does <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minority" class="extiw" title="w:Ethnic minority">minorities</a>. For example, Zimring, Eigen, and O'Malley (1976) found that black defendants who killed whites received life imprisonment or the death sentence more than twice as often as blacks who killed blacks. Other research has found this relationship for other crimes as well: Defendants receive harsher sentences if the victim is white and lesser sentences if he or she is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people" class="extiw" title="w:Black people">black</a>. If harsher sentences do indicate that minority status equals lower status in the criminal justice system, that equation may also help explain why minorities serve longer terms, all other things held equal, than white prisoners. <ul><li>Joan Petersilia, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/127137NCJRS.pdf">"Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System"</a>, <i>National Institute of Corrections, Department of Justice</i>, (June 1983), p. 95-96.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,<br />Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,<br />Can be retentive to the strength of <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a>;<br />But life, being weary of these worldly bars,<br />Never lacks power to dismiss itself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(play)" title="Julius Caesar (play)">Julius Cæsar</a></i> (1599), Act I, scene 3, line 93</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have been studying how I may compare<br />This prison where I live unto the world:<br />And for because the world is populous<br />And here is not a creature but myself,<br />I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_(play)" title="Richard II (play)">Richard II</a></i> (c. 1595), Act V, scene 5, line 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Might I but through my prison once a day<br /> Behold this maid: all corners else o' the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a><br />Let <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> make use of; space enough<br />Have I in such a prison. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i> (c. 1610-1612), I:2, Ferdinand</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate<br />To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,<br />Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,<br />By help of her more potent ministers<br />And in her most unmitigable rage,<br />Into a cloven pine; within which rift<br />Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain<br />A dozen years; within which space she died<br />And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans<br />As fast as mill-wheels strike. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i> (c. 1610-1612), II:2, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero" class="extiw" title="w:Prospero">Prospero</a>, speaking to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(Shakespeare)" class="extiw" title="w:Ariel (Shakespeare)">Ariel</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Once you're in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don't want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do , the salaries would amount to billions. License plates alone would amount to millions. When Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia, he brought a <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Black</a> <a href="/wiki/Woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Woman">woman</a> from prison to clean the state house and babysit Amy. Prisons are a profitable business. The are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? they certainly aren't planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government's genocidal war against Black and Third World people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assata_Shakur" title="Assata Shakur">Assata Shakur</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata:_An_Autobiography_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Assata: An Autobiography (book)">Assata: An Autobiography</a> (1988), pp. 64-65</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It took a sleepless week of data crunching, but I eventually tracked down the location of my friends - locked away in the mysterious towers of Prague. At the moment, they're the unwilling guests of Interpol's most renowned prison warden - the Contessa. While still a criminal psychology student, she entered into a whirlwind romance and married a wealthy aristocrat. Sadly, the union was short-lived, as the general "suspiciously" died a few weeks after the ceremony. The widowed Contessa put her education and newly acquired estate to work by opening a criminal rehabilitation center. Her pioneering use of hypnotherapy has produced some good results and subsequently earned her a prominent position within Interpol. My friends are locked up somewhere in the clinic and are slated for the Contessa's "good samaritan" brainwashing. If I don't bust them out soon, they'll be working a 9-to-5 job selling shoes and I'll be out 2 best friends! <ul><li>Bentley the Turtle, <a href="/wiki/Sly_2:_Band_of_Thieves" title="Sly 2: Band of Thieves">Sly 2: Band of Thieves</a> (2004)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Life in Prison was pretty boring for <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> guys. We were not allowed to play cards. We were supposed to limit our reading to the <a href="/wiki/Qu%27r%27an" class="mw-redirect" title="Qu'r'an">Qu'r'an</a> or <a href="/wiki/Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic">Islamic</a> <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>. The other factions were allowed a lot more freedom than we were. <ul><li>Son of Hamas Chapter Twelve Number 823 1996</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="T">T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If they lock me up, at least I'll have a place to stay. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Tyson" title="Mike Tyson">Mike Tyson</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story"><i>ESPN</i></a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>If a captive <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> is unaware of being in prison, it is living in <a href="/wiki/Error" title="Error">error</a>.</b> If it has recognized the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a>, even for the tenth of a second, and then quickly forgotten it in order to avoid suffering, it is living in falsehood. <b><a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">Men</a> of the most brilliant <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">intelligence</a> can be <a href="/wiki/Born" class="mw-redirect" title="Born">born</a>, <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">live</a> and <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a> in <a href="/wiki/Error" title="Error">error</a> and <a href="/wiki/Falsehood" title="Falsehood">falsehood</a>.</b> In them, intelligence is neither a <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a>, nor even an asset. The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between <a href="/wiki/Criminals" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminals">criminals</a> condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. <b>The intelligent man who is <a href="/wiki/Proud" class="mw-redirect" title="Proud">proud</a> of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simone_Weil" title="Simone Weil">Simone Weil</a>, in "Human Personality" ('c<i>. 1933), in </i>Simone Weil : An Anthology<i> (1986), edited by Siân Miles, p. 69</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I never saw sad men who looked<br />With such a wistful eye<br />Upon that little tent of blue<br />We prisoners called the sky,<br />And at every careless cloud that passed<br />In happy freedom by. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, <i>The Ballad of Reading Gaol</i> (1898)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol — brighter than my students at university. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson">Colin Wilson</a>, Interview with Paul Newman in <i> Abraxas Unbound</i> #7</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prison&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 634.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>In durance vile here must I wake and weep,<br />And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, <i>Epistle from Esopus to Maria</i> in Chambers' <i>Burns' Life and Work</i>, Volume IV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whene'er with haggard eyes I view<br /> This dungeon that I'm rotting in,<br />I think of those companions true<br />Who studied with me at the U-<br /> Niversity of Göttingen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Canning" title="George Canning">George Canning</a>, song, <i>Of One Eleven Years in Prison</i>. Found in <i>The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin</i>. Also in <i>Burlesque Plays and Poems</i>, edited by Henry Morley</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Prison'd in a parlour snug and small,<br />Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, <i>Retirement</i>, line 493</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. <ul><li>Ezekiel. X. 10</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In durance vile. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kendrick&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Kendrick (page does not exist)">William Kendrick</a>, <i>Falstaff's Wedding</i>, Act I, scene 2. <a href="/wiki/Burke" class="mw-disambig" title="Burke">Burke</a>, <i>Thoughts on the Present Discontent</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That which the world miscalls a jail,<br /> A private closet is to me.<br /> * * * * *<br />Locks, bars, and solitude together met,<br />Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret. <ul><li>Attributed to Sir <a href="/w/index.php?title=Roger_L%27Estrange&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger L'Estrange (page does not exist)">Roger L'Estrange</a>. Also to Lord Capel. Found in the <i>New Foundling Hospital for Wit</i> (Ed. 1786), IV. 40, as a supplementary stanza. 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