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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
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.