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If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.