Edwin M. Stanton Quotes

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

If you are fortunate enough to take a prisoner, keep him separate so that he may be examined.

It was really tough being in jail. It doesn't get much lower. You're in a filthy room. The food is terrible, and you're surrounded by people who have done all types of crazy crimes. You have nothing that belongs to you, not even your own underwear. It's just terrible.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

I really don't like being in jail.

When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about you. When you go to jail, you're a story.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

No one cares about you when you're in jail.

When you get locked up, you get locked out.

Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

To be honest, I would probably rather spend, like, a month in prison than spend a month rehearsing with some musicians, metalheads. I pick prison over that, really. And I say that knowing well what prison is like, so don't get me wrong here. Prison sucks big time.

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

The cell door slammed behind Rubishov.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.