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  1. Scott Westerfeld _ The Last Days

    I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
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  2. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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  3. Drexel Deal _ The Fight of My Life is

    When a guy goes out there and kills somebody, he might look at himself as the winner. But in truth he's also a loser, because now he would be lost in the system. If you were listening to the news recently, some people you know well are doing 45, and 64 years for murder. They might have won their fight, but they lost their lives to the system. Franco 'Co' Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge.
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  4. Drexel Deal _ The Fight of My Life is

    When I first went to prison, I made the best out of it. From the streets, I was hearing reports of Rebellions going to prison and getting do in {beat up}. Our fellas had no say, couldn't even open up their mouths. When I went up there for the first time, I turned that prison into a place that everyone could say that the Rebellions were running it after that. I wouldn't say I did it alone, but I help set the groundwork to give the Rebellions a say in prison. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ American Gods

    The best thing-in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing-about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.
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  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
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  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The House of the Dead

    Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.
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  8. M. John Harrison _ Viriconium Nights

    The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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  9. L.M. Montgomery _ The Blue Castle

    That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
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  10. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison. {...} Naturally a well-run prison must have a prison industry. I'm sure you see why." "Well... it helps to keep the inmates busy, I suppose. Takes their minds off the boredom and futility of their lives.""Yes. Can you name yours?""Our prison industry? Not offhand. I suppose it's obvious.""Quite obvious, I would say."I gave it some thought. "Consuming the world."Ishmael nodded. "Got it on the first try.
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  11. Daniel Quinn _ Ishmael: An Adventure of the

    There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.
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  12. Henry David Thoreau _ I to Myself: An Annotated

    The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.
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