A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.
Brian: Sally is rather knowledgeable in these areas. Fritz: You do what Sally says, you end up I think in prison.
[first lines] Tarek Fahd, Häftling Nr. 77: [voiceover, reading newspaper ad] Test subjects wanted. Earn 4000 marks for a 14-day experiment in a simulated prison.
Lesra: [observing the prison] This is some place. Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: This is no place, not for a human being or anybody. Never get used to a place like this.
Ariadne: Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's gonna contain her?
Zeng: [watching Tai-Lung break out of his prison restraints] We're dead. So very, very dead.
Gothmog: Release the prisoners! Orc Lieutenant 1: Catapults! [the catapults fling dozens of severed heads into the city]
Lawrence: [as Peter leaves to confess to Lumbergh about stealing money, knowing he may go to prison] Peter... watch out for your cornhole, bud.
Prisoner: I know you, you're Degas. You're a very intelligent man! Dega: Thank you. I seem to be known in all the wrong places.
Andy Dufresne: You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.
Charlie Kaufman: How could you have somebody held prisoner in a basement and... and working at a police station at the same time? Donald Kaufman: [pause] Trick photography.
McKnight: You, get up there and drive! Othic: But I'm shot Colonel! McKnight: Everybody's shot! We need the prisoners, let's go!
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.
It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.
