#prison

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#because #been #convention #crimes #escape

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#contracted #effect #i #illness #institutions

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#entering #illiterate #people #per #prison

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. ↗

— Mary Archer

#good #i #plenty #prison #rather

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basement #cables #come #confinement #continue

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. ↗

— Dan Benishek

#hospitals #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants #jobs

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#had #her #i #money #name

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#challenge #having #imprisoned #imprisonment #legality

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#i #i think #image #looks #obsessed