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“As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Jackson Browne
“(I want him to be sentenced to) life in prison. I don't want the death penalty. I want him to live to be an old man in prison and I want him to fear for his life every day, just as Julie feared for hers.”
Peggy White
“die or be executed for his crimes rather than spend the rest of his life in prison.”
Chai Vang
“When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo”
“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor”
“The four prisons are still going to be built. This project is underway as we speak.”
Bheki Manzini
“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”
Oscar Wilde
“I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.”
