Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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 essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.