Inmates Quotes - Page 4

• I started out in 1985, and I was Inmate #1 in every prison movie made from '85 to '93.

  Kim Coates

  Prison, Made

  Source: collider.com

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• An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Availability, Florida

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• I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Crush, Dust, Long

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2017). “The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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• I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Animal, Liberty, Cages

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• 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.

  Daniel Quinn

  Differences, Justice, Criminals

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• Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

  Cammie McGovern

  Girl, Mother, Men

  Cammie McGovern (2010). “Neighborhood Watch: A Novel”, p.9, Penguin

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• I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

  Danny Trejo

  Prison, Made, Stills

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• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
  Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
  And, even with something of a mother's mind,
  And no unworthy aim,
  The homely nurse doth all she can
  To make her foster child, her inmate man,
  Forget the glories he hath known
  And that imperial palace whence he came.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Children, Men

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.388

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• Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.

  Ann Voskamp

  Country, Children, Real

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Errors, Childhood, Dungeons

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.172, Vintage

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• One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

  Mary B. Harris

  Opportunity, Views, Grace

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• So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

  Lauren Beukes

  Twelve, Cracks, Ems

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media

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• In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

  Doris Roberts

  Dog, Eight, Bars

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• Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

  Kim Severson

  Phones, Internet Access, Games

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• Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

  Anthony Standen

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

  Russell Simmons

  Jobs, War, Artist

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

  Patricia McConnell

  Couple, Writing, Years

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• I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

  Cecily McMillan

  Islands, Wings, Jail

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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