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Quotes about prison
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. (Newton Huey)
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs -- all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world. Life in jail is in suspension. (Newton Huey)
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. (Newton Huey)
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. (Newton Huey)
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. (Newton Huey)
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. (Newton Huey)
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. (Newton Huey)
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. (Newton Huey)
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it? (Newton Huey)
Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. (Newton Huey)
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. (Newton Huey)
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. (Newton Huey)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Newton Huey)
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. (Newton Huey)
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. (Newton Huey)
I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. (Newton Huey)
Rot away in a foreign prison. (Newton Huey)
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in. (Newton Huey)
“I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done. I've had lots of wonderful opportunities.” (Newton Huey)
“I knew he would not have gone to prison if I hadn't come forward.” (Newton Huey)
Based on the 70 percent rule, (Brown’s) actual prison time will be 9.1 years before he’s eligible for parole (Newton Huey)
To go from working in a prison to living there is a serious reversal of fortune, … Stealing from inmates is both outrageous and ridiculous. I hope this case, along with our other numerous convictions of public officials in the past three years, will send the strong message that people who embezzle money from the government always get caught, and in Saline County they face severe punishment (Newton Huey)
they’re not going to jail because of me. (Newton Huey)
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison (Newton Huey)
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. (Newton Huey)
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